New York's emerging plan to regulate natural gas drilling in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale needs to go further to safeguard drinking water, environmentally sensitive...
Article Context
EPA sees risks to water, workers in New York fracking rules
Articles from 1.16.2012
Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity spends $6M on anti-Obama Solyndra ad
A conservative group is spending $6 million in battleground states on a new ad critical of President Obama's role in funding the failed green energy firm Solyndra,...
Hyundai hits 2016 CAFE requirements early
All automakers are under pressure to hit more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations, figures set by the National Highway Traffic Safety...
A123 will supply battery packs for BMW hybrids
Lithium-ion battery-pack maker A123 Systems, whose customers include General Motors, Fisker and ALTe, will make battery packs for two new BMW hybrid vehicles this year....
White House plan would move NOAA to Interior
The federal agency merger plan that President Obama is pushing Friday would shake up environmental and climate research and policymaking.Under the plan, the National...
Fracking political support unshaken by doctors’ call for ban
Tremors in Ohio, murky drinking water in Pennsylvania and a call for a moratorium by doctors isn’t eroding political support for hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. Congress...
Calif. Energy Commission approves energy efficiency rules for battery chargers; auto chargers exempted
The California Energy Commission approved a first-in-the-nation energy efficiency standard that will reduce wasted energy by battery chargers commonly used to power cell...
Articles Related by Topic
EPA: Well water in Pa. gas drilling town Dimock is safe
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Federal environmental regulators say testing of scores of drinking-water wells in a northeastern Pennsylvania village has failed to turn up unsafe...
New fracking rule issued by Obama Administration
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday issued a proposed rule governing hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on public lands that will for the first time require...
Feds link water contamination to fracking for the first time
In a first, federal environment officials today scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing, concluding that contaminants found in central...
EPA finds fracking compound in Wyoming aquifer
As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a...
EPA study from 1980s linked fracking to fouled drinking water
A 1987 study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documented at least one case where some of the gel used in fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, had...
E.P.A. zeroes In on 7 sites to study fracking's impact on drinking water
The Environmental Protection Agency has chosen seven natural gas drilling sites where it will conduct case studies to evaluate the impact of hydraulic fracturing on local...
Former Bush EPA official says fracking exemption went too far; Congress should revisit
When Benjamin Grumbles was assistant administrator for water at the Environmental Protection Agency in the George W. Bush administration, he oversaw the release of a 2004...
Rush Holt: EPA not doing good enough job monitoring 'fracking'
The Environmental Protection Agency is not doing a good enough job monitoring the potential public health hazards associated with a controversial natural gas drilling...
EPA releases draft plan for fracking study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators issued a draft plan on Tuesday outlining how they will determine whether a technique for drilling natural gas harms...
More Coverage: ProPublica
Drilling industry says diesel use was legal
After three members of Congress reported this week that drilling companies have been injecting large amounts of diesel fuel underground to hydraulically fra
EPA subpeonas Halliburton after it refuses to comply with fracking information request
Halliburton is the only company that has refused to voluntarily provide the Environmental Protection Agency with key information about its hydraulic fracturing, or...
More Coverage: Reuters
EPA asks firms for info on gas-fracking liquids
WASHINGTON-The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday asked gas companiesto reveal what chemicals are used in deep extraction, addressing concerns byresidents that...
Stay connected.