Fracking

Ban Fracking in Calif. Now—Not 2024, Say Climate Groups Following Newsom Order to Phase Out Gas-Powered Cars

Students and environmental activists participate in a climate strike in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019.

Fracking Not a 'Sustainable Pathway to Prosperity': New Report Shows Clean Energy Would Create More Jobs Than Fossil Fuels

Lisa Newcomb, staff writer

"For the sake of giving workers a stable future, protecting public health, and making real strides in the fight against climate chaos, the choice is clear: Clean energy jobs can deliver far more good jobs for Pennsylvania."

Despite Poll Showing Aggressive Climate Action a Winning Issue, Biden Boasts 'I Am Not Banning Fracking'

Lisa Newcomb, staff writer

In response to Trump's claims Biden would ban fracking, the Democratic...

Trump Rebuked for 'Breathtakingly Vicious' Plan for Fossil Fuel Lease Sales in California Amid Historic Wildfires

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A sign warning people about Covid-19 is surrounded by flames during the Hennessey fire near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on August 18, 2020.

"More oil wells mean more greenhouse gases, more air pollution, and more...

Pressured by Climate Activist Groups, Deutsche Bank Ditches Drilling in the Arctic

'Privatize the Profit, Socialize the Mess': Abandoned Fracking Wells Left Spewing Climate-Killing Methane Nationwide

'The Poster Company for US Fracking Has Fallen': Chesapeake Energy Files for Bankruptcy

DNC's Climate Council Urges Party to Go Beyond Biden Plan, Calling for Fracking Ban and $16 Trillion Renewable Energy Investment

Expansion of Fed Lending Program Blasted as Bailout for 'Toxic and Reckless' Fossil Fuel Industry

$"We should be phasing out carbon as quickly as possible, and fracking is an excellent place to start."$

Critics Decry 'Massive Step in Wrong Direction' as Big Banks Move to Buy Up Fracking Industry Assets With Coronavirus Bailout Funds

'Corporate Socialists' Denounced as Trump Considers Fracking Industry Bailout Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Over 570 Groups Endorse Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez's Fracking Ban Act as 'Essential and Urgent Climate Action'

Study Suggests Fossil Fuel Use Emits Up to 40% More Climate-Heating Methane Than Previously Thought

$Anti-fracking demonstrators hold a banner and signs$

'Bridge to Climate Chaos': New Report Details Urgent Need for Total US Fracking Ban

'Green New Dud, Not a Green New Deal': Climate Groups Denounce Draft Bill From House Democrats

'Extremely Disappointing': New Analysis Offers Scathing Critique of Top Democrat's CLEAN Future Act

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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:...