Birds of Northeastern Pennsylvania Threatened by Fracking Development
Information on which bird species in northeastern Pennsylvania are affected by the fracking industry’s expansion.
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Trends in fracking waste coming to New York State from Pennsylvania
Over the past decade, New York State has seen a steep decline in the quantity of waste products from the fracking industry sent to its landfills for disposal. Explore FracTracker’s 2020 updated data.
2021 Pipeline Incidents Update: Safety Record Not Improving
The map below shows 6,950 total incidents since 2010, translating to 1.7 incidents per day. Pipelines are dangerous, in part because regulation around them is ineffective.
New York State Oil & Gas Well Drilling: Patterns Over Time
In this article, we look specifically at spatial and temporal patterns in oil and gas drilling across New York State.
Shell’s Falcon Pipeline Under Investigation for Serious Public Safety Threats
Shell’s Falcon Pipeline, which is designed to carry ethane to the Shell ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA for plastic production, has been under investigation by federal and state agencies, since 2019.
The fight to protect Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Regulatory actions to open ANWR for drilling in ANWR have significant and potentially grievous implications for Alaska’s Native peoples, and do not bode well for Alaska’s air, water, and landscape, and the biodiverse species such as the Porcupine caribou that call it home.
Mapping intersectionality: Empowering youth addressing plastics
VIEW MAP & DATA Overview A new collaboration between FracTracker Alliance and Algalita is aiming to help middle school and high school students understand the connection between plastics and fracking — and the wide ranging implications for climate change, environmental injustice, and human health. Most young people today understand that plastics are problematic. But, there […]
Pennsylvania’s Waste Disposal Wells – A Tale of Two Datasets
VIEW MAP & DATA Overview Access to reliable data is crucial to our understanding of risky fracking waste disposal, and in turn, our ability to protect public health. But when it comes to oil and gas liquid waste disposal wells in Pennsylvania, despite monitoring by two separate agencies, we are left with an incomplete […]
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.
Industrial Impacts in Michigan: A Photo Essay & Story Map
Southwest Detroit and neighboring South Rockwood in Monroe County could not be more different demographically, but one thing they have in common is a consistent battle with the extractives industry. With environmental advocates Theresa Landrum and Doug Wood, FracTracker created a Story Map to document what this infrastructural buildout in Southeastern Michigan looks like from […]
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