Tag: fracking
SEC finds fracking sand company misled investors with claims of ‘game...
The fracking industry’s over-the-top claims to investors have been the norm, but even when proven to be fraudulent, companies suffer almost no consequences.
Living near fracking wells is linked to higher rate of heart...
Fracking and the increased truck traffic created by the industry raise levels of air pollution significantly, and exposure to air pollution raises heart attack risk.
Struggling to make a profit, fracking investors are searching for the...
“Banks are losing money and investors are stuck in investments they can’t get rid of.”
California’s fracking ban fails in the Senate
While California is a major U.S. oil producer, urban democratic senators were hoping to change the state's course and take a lead on the climate crisis.
Appalachian fracking faces financial risks, report warns. Hopes for petrochemical plastics...
The associated petrochemical buildout that the region has pinned its hopes on as the future of natural gas is “unlikely,” the report states.
More than half a million people exposed to flaring, increased health...
Roughly 530,000 people live within three miles of an oil and gas flare.
Analysis: Some fracking companies are admitting shale was a bad bet—others...
Will the industry listen—or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil?
Investigation into chemical exposure from fracking in Pennsylvania provokes call for...
“Pennsylvania’s children should not be used as laboratory rats,” said biologist Sandra Steingraber, who called fracking “an uncontrolled human experiment” that involves “toxic exposures.”
Delaware River Basin Commission votes to ban fracking in historic victory
"Banning fracking in the Delaware River Basin is an historic event."
Appalachian fracking boom was a jobs bust, finds new report
“[P]olicymakers should look very critically at proposals to expand or otherwise assist the natural gas industry, which has yet to demonstrate that it is capable of contributing positively locally or on a large scale to the states and counties where it is most prevalent.”