Major Developments

• PA Water Supplies Damaged by Drilling. READ ARTICLE
• NY Towns Can Ban Fracking Via Zoning. READ ARTICLE
• Carlucci Urges Fracking Studies READ ARTICLE
• Fracked-up roads: Texas, NY READ ARTICLE
• NYPIRG Alleges Conflict of Interest for dSGEIS Consultants; Recommends Governor Reject Document READ ARTICLE
• EPA Wants State Dept. to Rework Analysis of Keystone XL Pipeline READ ARTICLE
• You Have to See It to Believe It: What It’s Like to Have Fracking In Your Backyard READ ARTICLE
• Fracking is Shrinking the PA Dairy Industry. READ ARTICLE
• Sandra Steingraber’s Letter from Jail: Part 2 READ ARTICLE
• Sandra Steingraber’s Letter from Jail: Part 1 READ ARTICLE
• Manhattan Methane Emissions. READ ARTICLE
• Methane Baseline Completed in Minisink, NY. READ ARTICLE
• Shale Game – It’s an Ugly Picture. READ ARTICLE
• NYS Can Rid Itself of Fossil Fule in the Near Future. READ ARTICLE
• US Climate Bomb is Ticking. READ ARTICLE
• NYS DEC Continues to Shut the Public Out of Fracking Review. READ ARTICLE
• Why ‘Safe’ Regulation of Fracking of New York Is a Fiction. READ ARTICLE
• Fracking Review Consultant Says in Depth, National Study Needed. READ ARTICLE
• Boosted By Methane Releases, Oil And Gas Sector Is Number Two in Global Warming Pollution. READ ARTICLE
• Alarming Questions about EPA’s Oversight of Oil and Gas Drillers. READ ARTICLE
  
• An Oil Boom Takes a Toll on Health Care. READ ARTICLE
  
• Drilling Spills Reaching Colorado Groundwater. READ ARTICLE
• Methane Leaks Erode Green Credentials of Natural Gas. READ ARTICLE
• New Fears Over Fracking Groundwater Contamination. READ ARTICLE
• NYS AG Schneiderman Prepares Methane Suit Against EPA. READ ARTICLE
• Top Fracking Threats to health NY Must Assess. READ ARTICLE
• Fracking good for the climate? What a load of hot air. READ ARTICLE
• Important Comments from Susquehanna River Basin Citizen. READ ARTICLE
• Pavilliion, WY: Fracking Contamination of Aquifer Confirmed. READ ARTICLE
• PA Parks Director Says He Was Forced Out by Corbett Administration. READ ARTICLE
• Are Leaking Wells Letting Methane Get Into Dimock’s Water? READ ARTICLE
• NY State Plans Health Review as It Weighs Gas Drilling. READ ARTICLE
• Injection Wells: The Hidden Risks of Pumping Waste Underground. READ ARTICLE
• Gas Drilling, Howeowners Don’t Mix. READ ARTICLE
• Prominent Conservation Society to Take $30 Million from Chesapeake Energy? READ ARTICLE
• New Report Questions PA Environmental Chief’s Assertion About Methane Contamination. READ ARTICLE
• Federal Health Officials to Assess Dimock Pollution Risk. READ ARTICLE
• Where’s the Gas? USGS Releases Damning EUR’s For Shale. READ ARTICLE
• Will Public Outcry Against Fracking Sink Governor Cuomo’s Political Ambitions? READ ARTICLE
• PA Act 13 Injunction Granted. READ ARTICLE
• Nationwide Insurance to Exclude Fracking Risks. READ ARTICLE
• Link Between, Low Birth Weight and Fracking. READ ARTICLE
• In PA, 3,355 Marcellus Violations between 2008 and 2011. READ ARTICLE
• U.S. Probes Chesapeake, Rival Over Possible Collusion READ ARTICLE
  
• Safe Fracking an Impossibility and the Industry Knows It. READ ARTICLE
  
• Injection Wells: The Hidden Risks of Pumping Waste Underground (a ProPublica Series).  READ ARTICLE
  
• Environmental Groups Say They Will Fight Cuomo’s Gas Drilling Plan. READ ARTICLE
• Middlefield Court Confirms Prior Decision: Local Land Use Authority Not Preempted – Communities may use zoning to ban fracking. READ ARTICLE
• NYC’s Odd Sense of Good Health: No Big Sodas But Radioactive Kitchens. READ ARTICLE
  
• PA Assoc. for Sustainable Agriculture Urges Moratorium on Unconventional Gas Drilling. READ ARTICLE
  
• Okla. Billionaire’s Meltdown Could Mean More PA Fracking. READ ARTICLE
  
• Letter to NY City Council Re: Joint Hearings on Radon in Natural Gas from the Marcellus Shale. READ ARTICLE
  
• Municipalities and Natural Gas Extraction…What the Frack? READ ARTICLE
  

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DCS has undertaken a multipronged approach to combating the threat posed by shale gas drilling: advocacy, litigation, zoning assistance, technical assistance and registering health impacts. To learn more, click on the links on the left side bar. DCS is also engaged with key regulatory agencies: the Delaware River Basin Commission, the federal Environmental Protection Agency and state environmental departments in New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. DCS has focused primarily on the Delaware River Basin, a water-source for 15.6 million people, but increasingly has expanded its efforts across the Marcellus region.