A coalition of U.S. states warned on Monday that a spike in earthquakes potentially tied to oil and gas activity in places not typically prone to them needs urgent attention from regulators and others to protect public safety. Reuters. Sep 29 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-quake-oilandgas-idUSKCN0RS2HV20150928
A new study suggests that populations living close to fracking sites have a higher incidence of health complications. Triple Pundit. Sep 22 2015
The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions. InsideClimate News. Sep 22 2015
When the Environmental Protection Agency published its recent draft report saying fracking is not a “widespread” hazard to drinking water, industry supporters latched onto the statement like a Florida alligator grabbing dinner. Scranton Times-Tribune, Pennsylvania. Sep 20 2015
http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/both-camps-find-relief-in-epa-fracking-report-1.1945156
In the growing wake of the natural gas boom, West Virginia has been trying to figure out what exactly to do with waste generated by the oil and gas industry. West Virginia Public Broadcasting, West Virginia. Sep 18 2015
http://wvpublic.org/post/wva-continues-wrestle-radioactive-drilling-waste
Hundreds more of England’s most important wildlife sites are now at risk from fracking after the government opened up 1,000 sq miles of land to the controversial technology, a new analysis has found. The Guardian. Sep 17 2015
Fracking by the U.S. oil and gas industry has increased the burden on the nation’s water resources, but still accounts for less than 1 percent of America’s total industrial water use, according to a new study. Reuters. Sep 16 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fracking-water-idUSKCN0RF2FW20150915
Several years into the modern fracking era in the United States, there still isn’t enough rigorous research to determine whether or how the practice may threaten human health, according to a recent commentary. Reuters. Sep 12 2015
http://myengineers.blogspot.com/2015/09/historic-lifestyle-factors-complicate.html
For four decades, residents off Mt. Elliott Street near I-94 in Detroit have lived —somewhat uneasily — next to a hazardous waste processing facility, through which tons of the most toxic chemicals from industry are treated and temporarily stored. Detroit Free Press, Michigan. Sep 11 2015
Polling shows a majority of North Dakotans support tougher restrictions on the flaring of natural gas in Bakken oil fields, but so far legislative efforts to do so have failed to gain traction. Midwest Energy News, United States. Sep 10 2015
http://midwestenergynews.com/2015/09/09/fuel-added-to-flaring-fight-in-north-dakota/