On Feb. 27 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., a group of concerned Youngstown citizens and panelists will hold the second in a series of open public town hall style informational meetings on the topic of fracking…
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New York Supreme Court Justice Phillip Rumsey ruled today in favor of the right of Dryden, New York, to adopt zoning that prohibits natural gas drilling within its borders in Tomkins County…
EXCLUSIVE: As Fracking Boom Hits Ohio, Deceptive Industry Practices Squeeze Landowners
Erika Eichelberger
02-20-2012
Kasich says environmental protections and regulations are important to him, but the free-for-all so far has meant people and the environment have suffered. Not only has the process has been linked to earthquakes and water contamination in the state, but the industry’s deceptive leasing practices are increasingly causing alarm among Ohioans…
As President Obama said, it is true that “we don’t have to choose between our environment and our economy,” but that’s not because natural gas in shale is a clean fuel. Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel that, new studies are…
On this side of the Atlantic, shale gas has the potential to become an economical lifesaver. On the other hand, it could prove to be an ecological calamity—hence the banning of shale gas extraction in France and Bulgaria…
Overturning of Local Zoning Protections for Fracking Leads to Protests at Senators’ Offices
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
02-16-2012
Environmental organizations held protests outside the offices of three State Senators who recently voted for Marcellus Shale gas drilling legislation (HB 1950) which contains provisions that overturn local zoning ordinances and forces townships to allow gas operations in residential and all other parts of the municipality…
The Ohio EPA finalized its general permit for production operations at shale gas well sites. The Ohio Environmental Council, Buckeye Forest Council, and Center for Health, Environment and Justice are calling for further protections for health and environment…
The people’s media is our system of accountability and transparency and we must continue to practice it…
Frustrations are running high as our country continues to run our energy policy as business as usual. Sooner or later, push will come to shove. I just hope that when it does, our country will have taken the right steps forward to truly embrace the sustainable energy future we are capable of creating…
Delaware Riverkeeper Secures Reforms In Pennsylvania Gas Drilling Regulations
Delaware Riverkeeper
02-13-2012
“Pennsylvania’s regulatory program is demonstrably deficient when it comes to protecting waterways and communities from gas drilling, this litigation and our depositions just highlighted a few of those pitfalls…
Under the guise of providing “impact fees” to municipalities where gas operations occur, the legislature effectively supported a takeover of municipalities by the state and the gas industry by gutting established and effective local planning…
n Feb. 11, nearly 100 people marched in support of Concerned Citizens of Portage County from downtown Kent, Ohio to Kent State University protesting the process of hydraulic fracturing…
With that kind of money at stake, the mostly unregulated extraction process called hydraulic fracturing (fracking) that’s necessary to unleash the gas has become the nation’s most polarizing environmental and energy issue…
The eventual winner of the Fracky was the American Petroleum Institute for what activists referred to as “spinning the benefits of fracking so hard that some people actually believe that gas is a bridge fuel to renewables…
In an effort to challenge what they call the next threat to America’s energy independence, environmental health, and family economics, a coalition of environmental organizations has filed comments with…
Proponents of natural gas have long argued it is a “clean” fossil fuel, cleaner than oil and a great transition fuel that bridges our addiction to fossil fuels as we head towards renewable energy sources. But gas may not be as clean as…
On Feb. 7, Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) delivered his State of the State address from the 1,100-seat Steubenville High School auditorium rather than keeping with tradition and delivering the speech from the Statehouse in…
Gasland was intended to be both a chronicle of the way in which oil and gas companies have used vast sums of money to shield fracking from virtually all federal, state, and local regulations…
On Feb. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in Steubenville, Ohio, join Ohioans as they rally against the lack of regulation on the fracking industry, and Gov. John Kasich’s open door policy of natural gas extraction and fracking wastewater injection wells…
We all know that the affordability, efficiency, and sustainability of cleaner, greener energy will be a major challenge for this century. Some have called natural gas a better and cleaner energy source…
Unless you’ve been living under a shale rock, you know that on New Year’s Eve a 4.0 earthquake shook Youngstown, Ohio…
Have you ever had to turn away millions of dollars? It sounds crazy, but here’s why the Sierra Club chose to do exactly that…
Fracking Ohio-Lack of Regulation Impact Human Health and the Environment
Bob Hagan, Ohio House of Representatives
02-02-2012
For many months, I have attempted to start a reasonable debate in Ohio on the extraction of natural gas from shale through the controversial drilling technique commonly known as fracking, as well as on the just as worrisome disposal of wastewater in deep injection wells…
Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Josh Fox was arrested on Feb. 1 after attempting to film a House Science Committee hearing examining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s investigation of potential water contamination from hydraulic fracturing…
In a decision that will both dismay and worry environmental campaigners and communities facing fracking across Europe, the European Commission has concluded that existing laws are adequate to cover…
In 1954, Lewis Strauss, then chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, famously predicted that “Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter…
The national movement against fracking needs President Obama’s attention. We cannot allow him to move forward with fracking for natural gas…
Announced Jan. 26, the Southern Environmental Law Center’s (SELC) 4th annual list of the Top 10 Endangered Places of the Southeast targets areas of exceptional ecological, scenic, or cultural value that are facing immediate…
Natural Gas from Shale Not Suitable as ‘Bridge Fuel,’ May Worsen Climate Change
Cornell University
01-26-2012
Far from being a “solution” to climate change, natural gas extracted from shale is a huge contributor of greenhouse gases when both methane and carbon dioxide are considered, according to a major new study by three Cornell University researchers…
During the 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama appeared ready to throw the full support of his administration behind the expansion of natural gas drilling operations throughout the…
