As more gas wells are drilled in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, more cases of toxic spills are being reported. Earlier this month, Pennsylvania’s environmental officials …
The Philadelphia office of the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a toll-free tipline on Tuesday for citizens to report “unusual or suspicious” activity related to natural gas drilling.
In particular, the federal environmental oversight agency is encouraging …
Companies that drill for natural gas and oil are skirting federal law and injecting toxic petroleum distillates into thousands of wells, threatening drinking water supplies from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Federal and state regulators, meanwhile, largely …
There has never been a better moment for natural gas. It is the “other” fossil fuel, touted as a clean alternative to coal and oil. …
Victoria Switzer and her husband, Jim, are building what they hoped would be their retirement home in the rural hamlet of …
