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USGS: Recent Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade”

Report Implicates Oil and Natural Gas Drilling
» Read more... | Published April 4, 2012

Drilling Doublespeak

» Read more... | Published December 12, 2011

Cracks in the Façade

An Environmental Working Group investigation by Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt has uncovered evidence in a long-forgotten federal report and other documents that chemicals from hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells contaminated drinking water used by two West Virginia families.
» Read more... | Published July 26, 2011

Drilling Around the Law

Drilling Around the Law
Companies that drill for natural gas and oil are skirting federal law and injecting toxic petroleum distillates into thousands of wells, threatening drinking water supplies from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Federal and state regulators, meanwhile, largely look the other way.
» Read more... | Published January 11, 2010
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