Thursday, November 12, 2026

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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