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Red and white trucks flank a tall drilling well pictured against the sky
Environment
Trying to measure fracking’s toll on human health
Aerial view fracking pads
Environment
Fracking causes environmental damage and birth defects, new study shows
The treatment tanks at the SRE salt water disposal well.
Earthquakes from underground water injection can occur many miles away
Ethane cracker Singapore
Environment
Making the plastics found everywhere in modern life comes with a cost: more pollution
Under the new federal fracking rules, wastewater must be managed onsite and in closed tanks, not in the open pits seen here.
Environment
Fracking is about to change, and almost no one is happy about it
Nellis Solar Power Plant
Environment
Natural gas and solar power have been growing together. Can that last?
The Alberta Tar Sands in Canada. The Keystone Pipeline, which is designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast has become a huge political issue. President Obama has said he will veto recent Congressional legislation approving the pipeline
Environment
Even with a GOP Congress, here’s how a lame-duck Obama can help the environment
Greenpeace activists sit chained in front of Chevron's drilling site for shale gas during a protest in the village of Pungesti, Romania.
Conflict
American and Russian energy giants battle over a small Romanian town
Sediment from a stream bed containing fracking wastewater (jars on the left) developed orange residues after 90 days; sediment from a clean stream bed (jar on the right) did not.
Environment
As fracking booms, waste spills rise — and so do arsenic levels in groundwater
In Ohio, concerned citizens can bring water from their wells to a monthly water monitoring program.
Environment
Fearing pollution, some local governments are demanding back zoning control over oil and gas
Water treatment tub in PA
Environment
Can fracking solve the problem of polluted mine water in Pennsylvania?
Fracking in PA
Environment
Fracking often gets blamed for water problems, but it’s not a clear cut case
Fracking tower in PA
Environment
Here’s another complication for fracking — radioactive waste
Global Scan
Vladimir Putin would like you to know he too opposes fracking
Greenpeace set up a faux fracking operation outside the country home of British Prime Minister David Cameron this week to protest a government plan to allow fracking companies to drill under private property without the owners' permission.
Environment
Greenpeace decides to create a fracking well — under David Cameron’s home
Fracking site in North Dakota
Environment
Fracking went on trial and a Texas family beat the industry
Fracking site in North Dakota
Environment
Fracking went on trial and a Texas family beat the industry
Isabelle Levy
Environment
Will the French ban on fracking crack under industry pressure?
Environment
Pennsylvania farmers disappointed with fracking returns
Environment
Researcher looks to better understand climate risks of leaky natural gas wells
Environment
Environmentalists call for greater attention to methane leaks, to fight climate change
Environment
China turns to fracking to help meet growing energy demand
Environment
T. Boone Pickens at TED Conference, advocates for alternative energy plan
Environment
Experts tangle over whether fracking waste is making drinking water unsafe
Environment
Environmental Protection Agency has rough 2011, shows uneven progress
Environment
EPA acknowledges link between fracking, well pollution in Wyoming
Environment
VIDEO: U.K. debating whether to expand fracking onshore
Environment
Burning water, contamination and natural gas “fracking”
Environment
Fight over natural gas gets heated
Global Politics
Do Democratic losses mean a win for natural gas?
Environment
Waste Water from Oil Extraction Can Cause Earthquakes
Business, Economics and Jobs
Fracking in the UK: Supporters Look to Avoid ‘Reckless’ US Mistakes
Fracking Around the Globe
Fracking’s Impact on the American Landscape
Fracking on Amish Land
The Fight to Save Old Logger’s Path
Is Fracking Making People Sick?
Fracking with Propane Instead of Water
Global Politics
Why Guar Beans Matter
The Guar Gum Bubble
EPA Says Fracking May Cause Pollution
Environment
A tainted well points to trouble with natural gas drilling
Fracking Makes Earthquakes?
Flammable Gas In Drinking Water From Hydraulic Fracking
New “fracking” report sure to heat up debate
PRI’s The World(Laura Lynch, Dave McGuire)
Global Politics
Poles unfazed by fracking?
The Costs of Fracking
Global Politics
French farmland tapped for oil