A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the ground could migrate...
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South Korean parliament approves carbon trading system
South Korea approved a cap-and-trade system to cut carbon emissions as President Lee Myung Bak seeks support from factories and power plants in the fastest-growing...
Toyota sells 1,654 Prius Plug-ins in April, beating Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf
The Toyota Prius, the most popular hybrid in the world, was also the most popular plug-in vehicle in U.S. last month. Compared to sales of the Chevrolet Volt and the...
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At the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco last week, scientists presented the latest evidence tying the disposal of wastewater from shale gas...
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...
EPA sees risks to water, workers in New York fracking rules
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...
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 plans new water standards for fracking
The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would craft standards for wastewater produced through extraction of natural gas from shale formations — a booming...
New study shows hydraulic fracturing for natural gas pollutes water wells
Drilling for natural gas is booming in Pennsylvania--thanks to fracturing shale rock with a water and chemical cocktail paired with the ability to drill in any direction....
Study raises concerns about overall greenhouse gas footprint of gas from ‘fracking’
Cornell University professors will soon publish research that concludes natural gas produced with a drilling method called “hydraulic fracturing” contributes to global...
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Buffalo, NY bans hydraulic fracturing
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The city of Buffalo, New York, banned the natural gas drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing on Tuesday, a largely symbolic vote that demonstrates...
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