John Rumpler (LA '88), senior attorney at Environment America, led a group of 35 individuals in a rally and petition presentation at the Massachusetts State House this past July in support of an ...

Of all things flammable in the wide world, tap water shouldn’t be one of them. At least that’s the consensus—call it crazy—among environmentalists and fracking foes, for whom the phenomenon, ...

You've probably heard about fracking, by now. It's a short-hand term for hydraulic fracturing, a method for extracting natural gas by drilling into shale and pumping a mix of water and chemicals into ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A New York court decision has bolstered a movement among towns determined to prevent the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within their borders. A ...

In their long-running fight to prevent a New Orleans company from drilling a fracking oil well in St. Tammany Parish, activists have often pointed to other communities around the country as models for ...

VESTAL, N.Y. — Big energy companies have been trying for five years to tap the riches of the Marcellus Shale in southern New York, promising thousands of new jobs, economic salvation for a depressed ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – This used to be a land proud of its oil barons. Now the energy industry that has brought wealth and jobs across the interior West is prompting angry protests by citizens ...

Cathy McMullen leans on the white picket fence surrounding the restored farmhouse she moved into five years ago to escape fracking and shakes her head in sorrow. McMullen and her husband originally ...

Josh Fox, director of the movie “Gasland” and a leading voice in the environmentalist anti-fracking movement, slammed the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision last week to turn over an ...

Are the Russians coming to Texas riding the tailwinds of fracking? That depends on who you ask, as some believe Russian forces were behind the anti-fracking vote in Denton, while a $15 million ...