The Environmental Defense Center (EDC), an activist group focused primarily on the environmental protection California’s majestic central coast, is none too happy with a draft study by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) on the...
Anti-fracking activist and Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo has been busy this week promoting a new film he is narrating called “Dear President Obama,” which calls on the president to “take action in the remaining months of his presidency to end hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.”...
At Sunday night’s Democratic debate, candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders responded to a question about whether they support the use of hydraulic fracturing. Sanders unsurprisingly held to his radical view on the matter, simply stating “No.” But it was Clinton that threw people off...
UPDATE (7:44 am PT, 3/4/2016): Vanity Fair changed the headline, and some text, in the article referenced below presumably in response to EID’s spotlight on its many errors. In several instances Vanity Fair changed the word “fracking” to “drilling” without issuing a correction as a...
A group of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University and Texas Tech University have recently released a new study charging that current setback distances in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Texas “cannot be considered sufficient in all cases.” Now, the anti-fracking echo-chamber is ramping...
A new study by researchers at Harvard University uses satellite readings to claim that U.S. methane emissions have increased 30 percent since 2002. This study comes while several reputable estimates – including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory – show the...
Recently, researchers at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) released a paper analyzing a potential relationship between seismic activity and produced water disposal from oil and gas operations in California’s Central Valley. To date, scientists and regulators – including John Parrish, the State Geologist —...
SUVs appear to outnumber protesters at “Keep It In The Ground” protest in Lakewood Colorado National activist groups’ hopes of drawing a large crowd for their “Keep It In The Ground” media stunt fizzled just one day after media reports revealed that they “staged” getting...
A new study released this week by geologists at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), found that developing Germany’s shale gas and oil resources through hydraulic fracturing would not pose a threat to drinking water resources. While the study itself is currently...
Last week, Coloradans Resisting Extreme Energy Development (CREED) announced a series of ballot initiatives targeting the oil and natural gas industry – including a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing. CREED’s candidness – that it is seeking a ban on fracking, and by extension oil and...
Today in Paris, anti-fracking activists staged a rally in protest of California Governor Jerry Brown’s support for oil and gas development, proclaiming that “climate leaders don’t frack.” They did this even though it’s thanks to fracking that the United States can tout being the only...
F&WW’s Sam Schabacker Rally’s to Ban Colorado Shale Development The Washington D.C.-based anti-fracking activist group, Food & Water Watch (F&WW), spearheaded a rally of roughly two dozen protestors in Denver today ahead of a Colorado state Supreme Court hearing in a case over whether local governments can ban...