Fracking

'We Are Winning This Fight': NY Gov. Cuomo Announces Opposition to Fracked Gas Pipeline

Members of the Stop the Williams Pipeline Coalition gathered for a press conference holding signs and banners outside National Grid Corporate Headquarters in Brooklyn to launch the #ClimateStrikeUtilities campaign

On Climate Strike Eve, 450+ Activists and Groups Urge United Nations to Back Global Fracking Ban

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Our planet is on fire, but fracking is not an evacuation bridge nor a fire extinguisher. Fracking is an arsonist that needs to be stopped."

Sanders First 2020 Democrat to Pledge, If Elected, All Top Appointees Will Back Fracking Ban and Bold Climate Action

Julia Conley, staff writer

"If presidential hopefuls are truly serious about tackling fossil fuels head-on...

Ahead of Climate Forum, Sanders Urges 2020 Dems to Back Federal Fracking Ban

Jon Queally, staff writer

"Any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on...

Fracking Boom in US and Canada Largely to Blame for 'Massive' Rise of Global Methane Levels: Study

Babies Born Near Oil and Gas Wells Are Up to 70% More Likely to Have Congenital Heart Defects, New Study Shows

'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate

Even If All US Drilling and Fracking Halts Today, Warns New Report, 'Flood of Toxic Waste Streams' Will Grow for Decades

Because 'This Is a Public Health Crisis,' Pennsylvania Gov. Urged to Investigate Link Between Fracking and Childhood Cancers

Canada's Plan to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Make Corporations Responsible for Waste Welcomed as 'Step in the Right Direction'

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As Study Shows Methane Emissions 'Vastly Underestimated,' Warnings That US Fracked Gas Export Bonanza Imperils Planetary Stability

Not 'Freedom Gas' But 'Failure Gas': First-of-Its-Kind Report Details Planetary Perils of US Fracking Infrastructure Boom

Sunrise Movement Vows to "Turn Up the Heat on Biden" as New Survey Details 2020 Dems' Climate Policies

200+ Groups to Senate: Kill Bill That Pours 'Fuel on Fire of Climate Crisis'

As Sanders Calls for Nationwide Fracking Ban, Inslee Signs Bill to Prohibit Destructive Drilling Practice in Washington

Groups Warn Against Trump Effort to Unleash 'Fracking Frenzy' by Unlocking Million+ Acres of Public Land for Drilling

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What the Frack: N.D. Oil Well Ron Burgundy Is Leaking, But They Don't Have To Tell Us How Much

Days after a report of “substantial gaps in oversight” at thousands of high-risk fracking wells, emergency officials announced a leak at Tioga, N.D.'s Ron Burgundy 3-23-14H fracking well, which is under a confidentiality agreement that protects its owners from having to tell the public what the hell is going on there. Alarmingly, 22% of North Dakota's 1,813 oil and gas wells have such “tight hole” status, probably because the state awards it to any operators who ask. What's most scary here:...