Tag: fracking
UK’s only fracking site stops work after two earthquakes in less...
“Even small vibrations at ground level can be the sign of far more damaging impacts deep underground.”
How an application for propane fracking attempts to circumvent New York’s...
Fracking with water is a bad investment. Fracking with propane is worse.
Fracking and shale drilling caused spike in climate-warming methane pollution, says...
Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years...
Bleak financial outlook for US fracking industry
General investors are finally catching up to the bad deal that fracking represents, but the question is: What took them so long?
Environmental groups sue BLM for not conducting environmental reviews in New...
The fracking push is "symptomatic of a broader assault on our public lands by the Trump administration."
Fracking’s dirty water problem is getting much bigger
Reusing fracking wastewater not only can have high levels of salts and chemical contaminants, but it also can be radioactive.
The research is in: Stop fracking asap
Science. Evidence. Facts. Do these even matter anymore in U.S. policy? They should — especially when it comes to issues that affect...
As risky finances alienate investors, fracking companies look to retirement funds...
Drilling companies plan to source 40 percent of their capital for 2019 from private equity funds.
Babies born in high-intensity oil and gas areas are 70% more...
"This study provides further evidence of a positive association between maternal proximity to oil and gas well site activities and several types of CHDs."
America’s big bet on selling fracked gas to China and the...
A lot of evidence points to these being bad bets — just like coal.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.