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By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica When methane began bubbling out of kitchen taps near a gas drilling site in Pennsylvania last winter, a state regulator described the problem as “an anomaly.” But at the time he made that statement to ProPublica, that same official was investigating a similar case affecting more than a dozen homes near […]
New report highlights possible solutions to state’s water shortages.
A small Indiana town is slated for cleanup as an EPA Alternative Superfund Site.
Dirty legacy contaminates groundwater of an Indiana town.
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica A version of this story was co-published with Salon. Legislators who’ve been pushing a bill to regulate a controversial natural gas drilling process are now calling for further scientific study, a change in tack made under intense lobbying pressure and after a personal request from Colorado’s Democratic governor. If the lawmakers […]
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica In a widely expected move that is sure to draw the ire of the oil and gas industry, Democratic members of Congress today introduced twin bills to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act and give the Environmental Protection Agency authority over the controversial drilling process called hydraulic fracturing. The stand-alone bills […]
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing — that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong — are challenged by the same data and reports the industry […]
Californians love (or hate) to fight about water in part because there are no easy solutions left.
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massive energy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean water laws, Congress is having second thoughts about the environmental dangers posed by the burgeoning industry. With growing evidence that the drilling can damage water supplies, Democratic leaders in Congress are […]
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into […]
Protection for 2.1 million acres of land and 1,000 miles of rivers.
Water and fire don’t mix, but in Colorado such idioms may soon explode.
