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Governor Newsom Well Watch website for California drilling

Oil & Gas Well Permits Issued By Newsom Administration Rival Those Issued Under Gov. Jerry Brown

FracTracker Alliance and Consumer Watchdog worked together to…
destroyed home following pipeline explosion in San Bruno, CA

Pipelines Continue to Catch Fire and Explode

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For the past decade, petroleum operators in the United States…
Overhead view of injection well

The Hidden Inefficiencies and Environmental Costs of Fracking in Ohio

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Ohio continues to increase fracked gas production, facilitated…

Fracking in Pennsylvania: Not Worth It

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Despite the ever-increasing heaps of violations and drilling…
Captina Creek Watershed FeaturePhoto by Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance

Fracking Threatens Ohio’s Captina Creek Watershed

FracTracker's Great Lakes Program Coordinator Ted Auch explores…
Fracking Drilling rig in Washington County, Pennsylvania

Allegheny County Air Quality Monitoring Project

A recent study out of Carnegie Mellon University estimated that…
Freiburg Recycling

How State Regulations Hold Us back and What Other Countries are doing about Fracking

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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…