While an initiative to require labeling of GMOs went down in defeat in Washington state, several Colorado towns voted to ban …
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The U.S. Is an Energy Superpower
New technologies have enabled the U.S. to become the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas by energy content.
As Obama Visits Upstate New York, the Fracking Debate Takes Center Stage
While the President might want to talk education on his visit to upstate New York, there will be no escaping the war over fracking
The War Over Fracking Comes to the English Countryside
Environmentalists have been fighting against fracking in the U.S. for years — with little success. Now the British government is pushing to allow drilling for shale gas in the U.K. Will British greens stop fracking from starting?
Deep Disposal Wells from Oil and Gas Drilling Linked to Earthquakes
A new study finds that the deep disposal wells used to store drilling wastewater—not fracking per se—may help trigger earthquakes. Regulators and the industry should take notice—and find ways to recycle that wastewater, …
Why the Shale Gas Industry Needs Regulations for Fracking
You’ll rarely find a business in America—and especially one in the fossil-fuel industry—asking for more regulation. The default mode of industry groups like U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute (API) …
Fracked: CNN Looks Into the Legal Gray Zone of Shale Gas Regulation
Oil is all we seem to want to talk about these days—$3.82 a gallon gas will do that—but the shale gas boom is still going on in much of the U.S. Ground zero—as we wrote about last year in TIME—is Pennsylvania, where some landowners have made a lot of money leasing their land for shale gas production. But as Poppy Harlow reports …
Shale Gas: It’s Not the Fracking That Might Be the Problem. It’s Everything Else
If you were trying to invent with a term that sounds as scary as possible, you couldn’t do better than “fracking.” That’s industry terminology for hydraulic fracturing, the process used to get at unconventional natural gas and …
Fracked: The Debate Over Shale Gas Deepens
Is shale gas good for us or not? Most of that argument has been over the potential risks that hydrofracking for shale gas might pose to water supplies—risks that were highlighted again this week when the Environmental …
Pipeline Politics: How an Oil Sands Project Has Become Key to Environmentalism
Given that there are already more than 2.3 million miles of pipelines in the U.S.—carrying petroleum products, chemicals and natural gas—it might seem odd that so much political energy has been expended on a proposed …