Forbes contributor Judy Stone, an infectious disease specialist from Maryland, recently used the final entry of her three-part anti-fracking series to push for a ban on fracking in her home state of Maryland. Not surprisingly, the final entry in Stone’s series (the first two entries...
The United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) — an independent regulator charged with preventing misleading, harmful and/or offensive advertisements — came to an informal ruling this week that the anti-fracking group, Friends of the Earth (FOE), released leaflets that could not be backed up by...
This morning, Marketplace and American Public Media (APM) published what was meant to be a hit piece entitled, “EPA’s late changes to fracking study downplay risk of drinking water pollution,” but in reality, the article has the distinction of being the most ridiculous attempt yet...
Yale School of Public Health has released a new report that was clearly meant to generate alarmist headlines, as it suggests that fracking can increase chances of childhood cancer. But this “study” has yet to gain any mainstream media attention, and even a quick look...
A new Environment America “report” uses a couple old anti-fracking tactics — exploitation of children and blatant misinformation from activist studies — to try to stoke fears and rally support for its extremist call to ban fracking nationwide. The ominously-titled “Dangerous and Close: Fracking Puts...
Perhaps motivated by the fact that their own research has failed to convincingly tie oil and gas development to reproductive problems, anti-fracking researchers from the University of Missouri recently released a “systemic review” of studies of the “association between oil and natural gas extraction processes...
After numerous failed attempts to link fracking to water contamination in Pennsylvania, Texas and Arkansas, Duke professor Avner Vengosh has now turned his attention to North Dakota. Unsurprisingly, Vengosh’s new Natural Resources Defense Council-funded study follows the similar theme of his past work: it finds...
This week, Environment America (EA) recycled its thoroughly debunked 2013 “fracking by the numbers” report, which includes the same tired claims activists have been trying (and failing) to push to the public. Packaged as “data to show fracking’s widespread harm,” the “new” misinformation in the...
The hydraulic fracturing panel of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) recently released its draft recommendations on EPA’s landmark draft assessment of hydraulic fracturing and groundwater. In the document, the SAB suggests that the agency change the language of its primary finding...
Some of the same researchers who previously claimed that groundwater in the Marcellus region was being contaminated by shale development released a new study this week finding no evidence that hydraulic fracturing fluids have migrated up into drinking water – consistent with what independent scientists...
Researchers at Duke University have just released a new study looking at the amount of water used and produced during shale development across the country. The report finds that the water used in the fracking process is only a fraction of what other industries use,...
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined the use of freshwater in the energy sector, specifically in hydraulic fracturing and thermoelectric power plants, as well as the current state of technologies being developed to reduce freshwater use. To explore this issue,...