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Permitting New Oil and Gas Wells Under the Newsom Administration
California regulators halt well permitting after Consumer Watchdog…

Mapping the Petrochemical Build-Out Along the Ohio River
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New maps show the build-out of oil and gas infrastructure that…

Impact of a 2,500′ Oil and Gas Well Setback in California
Why does California need setbacks?
A new bill proposed by California…

Pennsylvanians Demand a Response to Rare Cancer Cases, Other Health Impacts
New research on fracking health impacts, combined with unusually…

Production and Location Trends in PA: A Moving Target
The FracTracker Alliance tends to look mostly at the impacts…

Who Pays? Health and Economic Impacts of Fracking in Pennsylvania
Since the advent of unconventional shale gas drilling, some effects…

The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
Plastic has been getting a lot of negative press lately.
It’s…

The Falcon Public Monitoring Project
Part of the Falcon Public EIA Project
In March of 2019, two…

Release: The 2019 You Are Here map launches, showing New York’s hurdles to climate leadership
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lee Ziesche, lee@saneenergyproject.org,…

An Earth Day Tribute to Bill Hughes
In March 2019, Bill Hughes, environmental defender extraordinaire…

Idle Wells are a Major Risk
Designating a well as "idle" is a temporary solution for operators,…

Literally Millions of Failing, Abandoned Wells
By Kyle Ferrar, Western Program Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance
In…