USGS Finds Manmade Earthquakes Since 2001 from Oil & Gas

A well pad off of Walnut Road, in Tioga State Forest Pennsylvania, operated by Seneca Resources. photo: J.B.Pribanic

USGS: Recent Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade” Report Implicates Oil and Natural Gas Drilling By Dusty Horwitt and Alex Formuzis for EWG Washington, D.C. – A U.S. Geological Survey research team has linked oil and natural gas drilling operations [...]

Gas Companies Ongoing Quest to Keep Fracking Chemicals Confidential

While state regulators and the drilling industry say the rules should help resolve concerns about the safety of drilling, critics and some toxicologists say the requirements fall short of what’s needed to fully understand the risks to public health and the environment. The regulations allow companies to keep proprietary chemicals secret from the public and, in some states, from regulators. Though most of the states require companies to report the volume and concentration of different drilling products, no state asks for the amounts of all the ingredients...