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falcon_header_primer — Pipeline Regulations & Impact Assessments, a Primer
Part of the Falcon Public EIA Project Pipelines are categorized…
January 28, 2018/by Kirk Jalbert, PhD, MFA

falcon_header_class — The Falcon: Class Locations, Buildings & Recreational Areas
Part of the Falcon Public EIA Project In this segment of the Falcon…
January 25, 2018/by Kirk Jalbert, PhD, MFA

falcon_header_hca — The Falcon: High Consequence Areas & Potential Impact Zones
Part of the Falcon Public EIA Project In this segment of the…
January 24, 2018/by Kirk Jalbert, PhD, MFA

A Hazy Future Report Cover — A Hazy Future: Pennsylvania’s Energy Landscape in 2045
Report Calculates Impacts from PA’s Planned Natural Gas Infrastructure FracTracker…
January 10, 2018/by Sam Rubright, DrPH

Sandhill Crane — Giving Voice to the Sandhill Cranes: Place-based Arguments against Keystone XL
By Wrexie Bardaglio, guest commentator When we hear his call,…
November 8, 2017/by Guest Author

JOSHUA DOUBEK / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS — Groundwater risks in Colorado due to Safe Drinking Water Act exemptions
Oil and gas operators are polluting groundwater in Colorado,…
October 26, 2017/by Kyle Ferrar, MPH

Northeast Ohio Class II injection wells taken via FracTracker's mobile app, May 2015 — What are aquifer exemptions? Permitted exemptions from the Safe Drinking Water Act
Liquid Waste Disposal Drilling for oil and gas produces both…
October 26, 2017/by Kyle Ferrar, MPH

Brine or water roadspreading in WV — Does roadspreading of brine equate to oil and gas waste dumping?
The application of liquid oil and gas waste from conventional…
August 30, 2017/by Matt Kelso, BA

Right to a healthy home - Photo credit: Leann Leiter — The Right to a Healthy Home
Reframing Fracking in Our Communities Imagine that tonight you…
August 3, 2017/by Leann Leiter

Heavy equipment moves debris from the site of a house explosion April 17 in Firestone, Colo., which killed two people. (David Kelly / For The Times) — Risks from Colorado’s Natural Gas Storage and Transmission Systems
Worst Case Scenario A house exploding from a natural gas…
July 20, 2017/by Kyle Ferrar, MPH

Healthy Homes article in PA — Healthy Homes: Re-Framing Fracking Impacts
An Ohio family took joy in raising their kids and cattle at their…
June 26, 2017/by Leann Leiter

Water supplies article — Risks to Water Supplies in PA’s Susquehanna Basin
In this series of articles on the Susquehanna River Basin, FracTracker…
June 20, 2017/by Kirk Jalbert, PhD, MFA