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Testimony to PA DEP on Control of Methane & VOC Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Sources

This testimony was provided by Shannon Smith, FracTracker Manager…
PA attorney general 43rd grand jury report on environmental crimes

PA Grand Jury on Environmental Crimes Reveals Regulatory Failures

For the past two years, a grand jury empaneled by Pennsylvania…
FracTracker Alliance team

For A New Decade

In the summer of 2019, FracTracker began work on a bold strategic…
Frac Sand Mining 2013- Photo by Ted Auch
Oil & Gas waste tank operated by SWEPI and Enervest at the Hayes pad, Otsego County, Michigan May 21st, 2016

The North Dakota Shale Viewer Reimagined: Mapping the Water and Waste Impact

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We updated the FracTracker North Dakota Shale Viewer with current…
FracTracker Falcon Pipeline spills map

Falcon Pipeline Construction Releases over 250,000 Gallons of Drilling Fluid in Pennsylvania and Ohio

Part of the Falcon Public Environmental Impact Assessment - a…

Systematic Racism in Kern County Oil and Gas Permitting Ordinance

Kern County, California has approved at least 18,356 illegal…
Bushkill Falls PA

Fracking Water Use in Pennsylvania Increases Dramatically

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Unconventional wells in Pennsylvania were always resource-intensive,…
North Brooklyn Pipeline demographics map

New Yorkers mount resistance against North Brooklyn Pipeline

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By Kim Fraczek (Sane Energy Project), with input and mapping…
Map of New 2020 Fracking Permits in California

California, Back in Frack

California is once again a fracked state. The moratorium on well…
Bald Eagle flying

Happy Earth Day

What difficult times. The pandemic is beyond our common experience.…
California well pad

California Setback Analyses Summary

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FracTracker Alliance has conducted numerous spatial analyses…