'Close Encounters' With Gas Well Pollution
Living in the middle of a natural gas boom can be pretty unsettling. The area around the town of Silt, Colo., used to be the kind of sleepy rural place where the tweet of birds was the most you would...
View ArticleMedical Records Could Yield Answers On Fracking
A proposed study of people in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve a national debate about whether the natural gas boom is making people sick. The study would look at detailed health histories on...
View ArticleTown's Effort To Link Fracking And Illness Falls Short
Quite a few of the 225 people who live in Dish, Texas, think the nation's natural gas boom is making them sick. They blame the chemicals used in gas production for health problems ranging from...
View ArticleInteractive Map: Conventional Natural Gas Drilling Areas And Shale Basins
For many years, natural gas companies have been producing the fuel from "conventional" gas reservoirs, relatively close to the surface and easily accessible. New shale gas production techniques have...
View ArticleFracking's Methane Trail: A Detective Story
Gaby Petron didn't set out to challenge industry and government assumptions about how much pollution comes from natural gas drilling. She was just doing what she always does as an air pollution data...
View ArticlePennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Fracking 'Gag Rule'
From WHYY A new law in Pennsylvania has doctors nervous. The law grants physicians access to information about trade-secret chemicals used in natural gas drilling. Doctors say they need to know what's...
View ArticleRising Shale Water Complicates Fracking Debate
The nation's boom in natural gas production has come with a cost: The technique used to get much of the gas out of the ground, called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has contaminated drinking water....
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