Never before has fresh water been destroyed until this new method of hydrofracking. In New York, 70,000 hydrofracked Marcellus wells are proposed. A typical well requires five million gallons of ...

With New York State’s temporary ban on permitting of natural gas hydrofracking set to expire this summer, it’s natural to expect a dramatic uptick in activity and media coverage of this issue — above ...

The following is the text of a letter being sent to all Staten Island elected officials [on behalf of the Young Democrats of Richmond County]: I respectfully request that you support legislation to ...

George Whipple, a Nobel Peace Prize physician, stated in 1908 that if we "by increasing our capital in the form of mills and factories [and mines], decrease it in the form of natural water resources, ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock. It involves drilling into the ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas hasn’t contaminated drinking water wells in Arkansas, according to a new study, but researchers said the geology there may be more of a natural ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Unfortunately — over the past two decades — there have been lagging hints of the coming crisis to our drinking water being paid to this important issue in the media. In Senator Paul Simon’s (1998) ...

"All I can say is corrupt politics, corrupt politicians," Mark Ruffalo says. Dec. 6, 2011 — -- Actor Mark Ruffalo and film director Josh Fox denounced a controversial form of gas drilling this ...

EXCELSIOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Three deep hydraulic fracturing wells in northwestern lower Michigan’s Kalkaska County have used 42 million gallons of water in the past two years, according to a ...