oil and gas industry
By Nathanael Baker on March 3, 2011
Tags: Chesapeake Energy, The New York Times, The Times, United States, fracking, hyrdaulic fracturing, natural gas, natural gas regulations, New Energy Economy, oil and gas industry, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. natural gas production, Carla Greathouse, Chad Bradley, energy, food, fracturing, Gulf of Mexico, oil, oil and gas, U.S Environmental Protection Agency, U.S., White House
The controversy around hydraulic fracturing continues to build in the United States. The latest storyline surrounds the battle over instituting stiffer regulations on the industry.
By Brendan Demelle on November 17, 2010
Tags: BP, Inquiry, Reuters, BP, bp oil disaster, BP oil spill, deepwater drilling, Deepwater Horizon, Department of the Interior, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Halliburton, Ken Salazar, Macondo well, National Academies of Science, National Academy of Engineering, offshore drilling, oil and gas industry, cement, Gulf of Mexico, John Guide, Ken Salazar, oil, oil and gas
An independent panel of technical experts released its interim report today, finding that BP and its contractors ignored clear warning signs foretelling the disaster at BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Brendan Demelle on November 17, 2010
Tags: CBS News, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Pittsburgh City Council, fracking, Halliburton, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, natural gas, natural gas drilling, oil and gas industry, Pennsylvania, Darlene Harris, Doug Shields, energy, fracturing, oil, Pennsylvania
The Pittsburgh City Council this week unanimously adopted a first-in-the-nation ordinance banning corporations from drilling for natural gas within city limits, citing the threats to drinking water and public health posed by hydraulic fracturing methods used widely by drilling companies to extract
