fracking

Obama's jobs council hearts environmental destruction

The Fortune 500 CEOs who make up the president's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness are all about building Keystone XL, reinstating deepwater drilling in the Gulf, and fracking up West Virginia. The idea is that these projects will create jobs and economic growth, at least until there's a disaster of some sort that economically depresses […]

Jess Zimmerman Energy

Critical List: Crowdsourcing carbon solutions; New Yorkers regret drilling leases

The Maldives are going to crowdsource their carbon-cutting plan. (They’re asking international experts, not just letting any citizen drive policy. Not sure how that would work in the Maldives, but in the U.S. you’d get a lot of “shine lamps on solar panels for infinite energy!”)

Should the new poster child for global warming be the city mayor who has to deal with unexpected weather extremes?

Usually you hear about buyer's remorse, but New Yorkers are having sellers' remorse about turning over drilling rights to natural gas companies.

Sarah Laskow Energy

Josh Fox scores an Emmy for fracking documentary 'Gasland'

Josh Fox's film Gasland, which exposes the dirty underbelly of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, lost out on an Oscar, but won an Emmy.

Claire Thompson Energy

Fracking sadface: U.S. has one-fifth the shale gas once projected

"Oops," says the United States Geological Survey, "We used to think the shale on the East coast of the U.S., which gas companies are currently fracking into submission, had a metric buttload of natural gas. Turns out it only 0.2 metric buttloads." (I'm paraphrasing.)

Christopher Mims Technology

Rick Perry wants to frack Iowa

At an Iowa campaign stop, Rick Perry told voters that he's not aware of any instances when fracking contaminated groundwater.

Brad Johnson Energy

A must-read report on shale gas

The report could offer the beginnings of a blueprint for compromise on fracking regulation.

Michael Levi Energy

DOE panel calls for more study of fracking emissions

The panel's findings acknowledge that studies have produced conflicting results about just how "clean" the natural-gas industry is.

Stephen Lacey Energy

Six of seven fracking committee members have ties to natural gas industry

The government is convening a panel of experts to weigh in on how (and whether) fracking can be made safer. Yay! Six of the seven committee members have financial ties to the natural gas industry -- including the chairman, who's a board member of two energy companies and has received $1.4 million from them over three years. Boo!