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Industry's fracking problem
The Interior Department on Friday issued its proposed rule requiring the disclosure of fracking chemicals used in wells drilled on public and Indian lands, and it doesn’t appear that anyone is pleased with it...(05/09/2012)

Hydraulic Fracturing Under the Safe Drinking Water Act
Natural gas plays a key role in our nation's clean energy future and the process known as hydraulic fracturing is one way of accessing that vital resource. Hydraulic fracturing is used by gas producers to stimulate wells and recover natural gas from sources such as coalbeds and shale gas formations...05/04/12)

EPA Releases Draft Permitting Guidance for Using Diesel Fuel in Oil and Gas Hydraulic Fracturing/Guidance will clarify means of compliance with 2005 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released draft underground injection control (UIC) program permitting guidance for class II wells that use diesel fuels during hydraulic fracturing activities. EPA developed the draft guidance to clarify how companies can comply with a law passed by Congress in 2005, which exempted hydraulic fracturing operations from the requirement to obtain a UIC permit, except in cases where diesel fuel is used as a fracturing fluid...(05/04/12)

Pavillion Area Concerned Citizens (PACC) statement on The AP Exclusive: Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding
Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding is yet another perfect example of how the State of Wyoming has covered up industry's horrendous practices. Impacted citizens are viewed as collateral damage while the oil and gas industry rakes in billions of dollars...(05/04/2012)

AP: Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding
Wyoming's governor persuaded the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to postpone an announcement linking hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination, giving state officials - whom the EPA had privately briefed on the study - time to attempt to debunk the finding before it rocked the oil and gas industry more than a month later, an investigation by The Associated Press has found...(05/04/2012)

Sage grouse on the brink
Sage grouse in northeastern Wyoming are on the verge of extinction, hammered hard by a one-two punch from energy development and outbreaks of West Nile virus, according to a recently released U.S. Bureau of Land Management study....(04/03/2012)

Groups plan suit against Wyoming regulators over fracking fluid secrets
Three environmental groups and a watchdog group will file a petition in a Wyoming court Monday, hoping a judge will force state regulators to release secret lists of chemicals used by some companies in the hydraulic fracturing process.

 

First-ever federal fracking rules draw mixed reviews
A first look at what could be the first federal rules for hydraulic fracturing is drawing mixed reactions in Wyoming....(02/15/2012)

Oil industry and environmentalists spar over fracking fluid disclosure rules
Environmentalist and oil industry representatives engaged in a tug-of-war over Colorado's proposed rule requiring disclosure of fracking fluid ingredients at a hearing today...(12/05/2011)

Many think Wyoming's new fracking regulations don't go far enough.
 Both Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency are looking at ways to better regulate what is called hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. It involves using a pressurized mix of water, sand and chemicals to release oil or gas into a well. Today we are going to have two stories on this topic. Recently Wyoming enhanced its regulations concerning fracking. Yet critics complain that there is still too much leeway for companies to do as they please. Wyoming Public Radio's Irina Zhorov reports....(09/30/2011)

Wyoming fracking forum features frank exchange of views
For two days in Laramie this week, representatives of the energy industry, regulators, environmentalists, politicians, students and landowners sat and talked about the controversial but common oil and gas industry practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking....(09/28/2011)

Fracking represents opportunity, conflict
On the Wyoming land where some see agriculture and others see energy, Family Farm President Pat O'Toole sees conflict....(09/28/2011)

Former state legislator; ‘All we lack is some leadership’
As drilling and seismic mapping technologies continue to advance our ability to plumb the subterranean and unlock massive amounts of domestic oil and natural gas, many in the industry hint at a massive new drilling boom in the Rockies like never seen before - presumably a ripe opportunity for the nation to finally kick foreign oil imports...(09/26/2011)

Groups petition EPA for federal fracking rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should demand that companies disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing and conduct safety and health tests on the effects of those chemicals, more than 100 advocacy groups say....(08/05/2011)

Texas Passes "Fracking" Disclousure Law
Texas now requires natural gas well operators to disclose the chemicals they pump into the ground to drive the gas to the surface, a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." Several states have considered similar rules because of the chemicals' potential to contaminate drinking water....(07/20/2011)

National 'fracking' fluid database unveiled
A national database for the ingredients used in a controversial technique for obtaining oil and gas was opened for use on Monday...(04/11/2011)

Radio Active Hydro fracking waste water
Radioactive wastewater is being dumped into the drinking water of Pennsylvania and other states by a controversial drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, according to recently obtained documents and investigative reports....(03/03/2011)

New York passes moratorium on gas drilling technique linked to water contamination
On Nov. 30, the New York State Assembly voted in favor of a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," the practice by natural gas producers of flooding underground gas deposits with chemical-containing fluids to force the gas up. If Gov. David Paterson signs the moratorium, as he is expected to do, New York will be the first state to take such a step against the process. However, several other states have been tightening regulations on fracking in an effort to stem drinking water contamination that is costing local governments....(12/10/2010)

Hydraulic Fracking Raises Concerns From Environmentalists
Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" as it is best known, has drawn its share of controversy nationwide as well as locally from environmental groups, who have raised concerns over safety issues. Shannon Anderson with the Powder River Basin Resource Council explains the process of fracking..(11/2010)

Two Companies Seek Trade Secret Status for Fracking Fluids in Wyoming
Two chemical manufacturers are seeking an exemption from new rules in Wyoming that require public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing [2], a controversial natural gas drilling process suspected of polluting groundwater....(11/02/2010)

Dark Side of a Natural Gas Boom- Victoria Switzer dreamed of a peaceful retirement in these Appalachian hills. Instead, she is coping with a big problem after a nearby natural gas well contaminated her family’s drinking water with high levels of methane.....(12/08/2009)