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Mapping intersectionality: Empowering youth addressing plastics
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A new collaboration between FracTracker…

Pennsylvania’s Waste Disposal Wells – A Tale of Two Datasets
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Access to reliable data…

California Oil & Gas Setbacks Recommendations Memo
The purpose of this memo is to recommend guidelines to CalGEM for evaluating the economic value of the social benefits and costs to people and the environment in requiring a 2,500 foot setback for oil and gas drilling (OGD) activities.

Electric Vehicles: Better Wheels
The wheel may have been influenced by nature, but today, the…

Oil and Gas Wells on California State Lands
The fossil fuel industry has historically taken advantage of…

Industrial Impacts in Michigan: A Photo Essay & Story Map
Southwest Detroit and neighboring South Rockwood in Monroe County…


Fracking Waste in the Appalachian Basin – A Story Map
The production of fracking waste in the Appalachian Basin…

Channels of Life: The Gulf Coast Buildout in Texas
It’s been a little over a year since I visited the Texas Gulf…

People and Production: Reducing Risk in California Extraction
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New research shows that low-income communities…


Undermined: Voices from the Frontlines of Frac Sand Mining
FracTracker and Public Lab, with support from Save the Hills Alliance, produced "Undermined," an audio story featuring interviews with three residents impacted by the Hi-Crush Mine in Augusta, Wisconsin.