June 10, 2014 - From time to time, we'll bring you important news stories, new reports, and other relevant information about irresponsible oil and gas development locally, regionally, and nationally. In this installment, confirmed well water contamination from fracking in Texas, a new report finds natural...
January 30, 2014 - In the short-film, "Fracking in the Land of Lincoln," Greenpeace interviews Steve Combs, who now has to haul usable water to his home. Steve's well water was ruined by a leaky wastewater disposal well, which oil and gas companies use to permanently "dispose"...
January 27, 2014 - Citizens for a Healthy Community joined with Americans Against Fracking and more than 200 other groups from across the country to call on the federal government to re-open the EPA's investigation into water contaminated from fracking. In a letter, the groups called on the...
June 25, 2013 - "'The bottom line is strong evidence for gas leaking into drinking water in some cases,' Robert Jackson, an environmental scientist at Duke University in Durham, N.C., told NBC News. 'We think the likeliest explanation is leaky wells,' he added." The groundbreaking new study...