A group of physicians has compiled every scientific study and credible report they can find about the public health risks of fracking. One of their conclusions: No amount of regulation makes fracking safe.
Activity in Pennsylvania’s gas fields slowed in recent years amid low prices, but this year is going to be different, in part, because of a pipeline boom.
You can’t frack for natural gas in New York. But that ban doesn’t apply to pipelines carrying Pennsylvania gas or the building of natural gas power plants that need fuel.
Pennsylvania’s environmental justice program was created before the state’s fracking boom began. So none of the state’s more than 10,000 shale gas wells were ever subject to it. Some environmentalists think it’s time that changes.
