Florida’s legislative session is just getting started, bringing another wave of fracking ban initiatives that would also shut down the state’s long-standing conventional oil and natural gas development. Newly elected Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis indicated he would sign legislation banning fracking in the Sunshine State....
Rolling Stone put out a hit piece this week that not only attempts to perpetuate the myth that injection wells are inherently dangerous, but also tries to legitimize the agenda and tactics used by radical Pennsylvania-based activist group Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). As...
Just in time for the U.S. Senate’s impending vote on repealing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) methane rule, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) has churned out a repackaging of debunked anti-fracking studies and talking points into a new “report.” Notably, PSR intentionally conflates methane...
Duke University researchers recently published a new study, which finds the volume and quality of water that returns to the surface during oil and natural gas development (which the study refers to as “FP water”) is almost entirely composed of naturally occurring formation brine (about 92 to 96...
Researchers at Duke University recently released a study that looks at the consumption of water from 2009 to 2012 in Pennsylvania as shale development increased and the state was just beginning to transition to more natural gas-fired power generation. The study argues that “during the...
This week, a number of groups whose primary focus is “divestment” from all fossil fuels – including As You Sow, Boston Common, and Investor Environmental Health Network – released an update to a report they have published every year for the past few years. The...
Researchers at the University of Texas – Arlington (UTA) this week released a study entitled “A Comprehensive Analysis of Groundwater in the Barnett Shale Region.” The authors speculate that oil and gas development is one possible cause of elevated levels of contaminants in some water...
This week, Resources for the Future (RFF), an environmentally-focused think tank, released a new report that takes a look at the economics of shale gas development. Although it shouldn’t come as a surprise, the study is packed with fantastic news that stretches from direct market...
Dr. Brian Moench, an activist with Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, calls people who work in the fossil-fuel industry “psychopaths” and says they are guilty of “treason.” On October 26, a Denver Post reporter, Nancy Lofholm, published a story implicating oil and natural gas...
An analysis from California water officials completely contradicts the alarmist water contamination claims of a fringe environmental group called the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). In a recent press release, Tucson, Ariz.-based CBD claimed that a recent assessment conducted by the State Water Resources Control...
UPDATE (9/22/2014; 11:20 am ET): The Texas Railroad Commission (TRC) weighed in on the new well integrity study – and, as the Fort Worth Star Telegram put it, they “were not impressed.” At a meeting last week, Commissioner David Porter explained, “When you get away...
UPDATE (7/10/2014; 3:15pm ET): A geologist in the industry with more than 30 years of experience working in Pennsylvania (on which Prof. Ingraffea based his study) contacted EID and contributed more insights on this latest flawed report (he has requested anonymity). In an email to...