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Oil & Gas Well Permits Issued By Newsom Administration Rival Those Issued Under Gov. Jerry Brown
FracTracker Alliance and Consumer Watchdog worked together to…

Pipelines Continue to Catch Fire and Explode
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For the past decade, petroleum operators in the United States…

The Hidden Inefficiencies and Environmental Costs of Fracking in Ohio
Ohio continues to increase fracked gas production, facilitated…

Fracking in Pennsylvania: Not Worth It
Despite the ever-increasing heaps of violations and drilling…

Fracking Threatens Ohio’s Captina Creek Watershed
FracTracker's Great Lakes Program Coordinator Ted Auch explores…

Allegheny County Air Quality Monitoring Project
A recent study out of Carnegie Mellon University estimated that…



How State Regulations Hold Us back and What Other Countries are doing about Fracking
While it might be tempting to welcome an industry that often creates a temporary economic spike, the costs of mitigating the environmental damage from fracking far out-weighs the profit gained.

Want Not, Waste Not? Fossil Fuel Extraction’s Waste Disposal Challenges
Pennsylvania's fracking industry is producing record amounts…

Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services
Guest Blog by Josh Eisenfeld, Director of Marketing with Fair…

New Method for Locating Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells is Tested in New York State
Guest blog by Natalia N. Romanzo, graduate student, Binghamton…