Fracking

The Latest On: Fracking

December 17, 2015 | Article

Central Valley Board Continues to Mix Oil and Water

The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board opted not to stop a corporation from tainting groundwater with fracking waste until 2018.

December 10, 2015 | Press Release

Coalition Files Lawsuit to Safeguard Kern Communities from Flawed Oil & Gas Drilling Amendment

Groups aim to protect community health and water after officials approve oil industry plan to exempt drilling from environmental review for decades

December 9, 2015 | Article

One California County’s Fracked Idea

Kern County is the nation’s largest oil-producing county, and to keep on top it’s not going to let a little thing like public review of new oil and gas permits get in its way.

November 30, 2015 | Article

Methane Fighters Take on Washington

Thirty-five people from 12 different states visited Washington, D.C., to share their stories with their representatives in an effort to build support for the EPA’s newly proposed Methane Pollution Standard.
Earthjustice and partner groups flew 35 people from 12 states to Washington D.C. to tell policy makes just how much methane pollution from oil and gas drilling has compromised their health.

November 18, 2015 | Article

Natural Gas Industry + Oil Industry = Filthy Bedfellows

America's Natural Gas Alliance and the American Petroleum Institute, the respective lobbying groups for the gas and oil industries, will merge on January 1, 2016.

November 17, 2015 | Article

In North Dakota, Fracking Could Become Even More Dangerous

Every boom must bust, and as oil prices fall, hydraulic fracturing operations in North Dakota cut costs and put workers at risk.

November 10, 2015 | Article

The Fracking Trade-Off: Dirty Energy for Explosive Accidents

In the middle of a beautiful Ohio summer, explosions, fires and a massive fish die-off at a fracking well emphasized the dangers inherent in working in the fracking industry.

November 9, 2015 | Article

Building on Keystone, Obama Should Shed More Fossil Fuel Baggage

Allowing coal mining in a roadless Colorado forest—and denying the climate impacts of that mining—are just a couple of ways the administration is undermining its climate credibility.

November 3, 2015 | Article

Fracking by the Numbers

Fracking just doesn’t add up; it causes more social, economic and environmental problems than it solves. Renewable energy sources provide a welcome alternative.