May 22, 2013

RISKS AND RICHES IN THE FRACKING ERA

Hydraulic fracking is sweeping through our region, leaving in its path new jobs, new prospects, new hope — and much concern it is expanding too fast.
By Jeanne Starmack, Youngstown News, April 1, 2012

LAWRENCE COUNTY, PA.

Rich and Shirley Sallmen built their house three years ago on a treeless … Continue reading

Advocates: Fracking Health Impacts Need to be Studied More

Nationwide, fracking effects lead to heated debates
By Mary Esch, Associated Press, March 31, 2012

ALBANY, N.Y. — While New York regulators have spent four years mulling the environmental impacts of shale gas development, the potential human health impacts have been given short shrift, according to health advocates.

Whether gas … Continue reading

Md. House Votes to Require Energy Companies to Fund Safety Studies on Natural Gas Fracking

“We don’t want to become another Pennsylvania where farms and lives have been ruined by fracking pollution.”
By Chesapeake Climate Action Network and CitizenShale, March 20, 2012

ANNAPOLIS – Positioning Maryland to be the first state in America to study the safety of natural gas fracking drilling before approving the … Continue reading