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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

The hydraulic fracturing technology driving a nationwide natural gas boom isn't inherently threatening to water supplies as some critics say, but poor well construction and older wells likely have ...

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) ...

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 ...