Stan Cox, AlterNet. November 5, 2009. Natural gas is "clean" only in contrast to coal -- just as a bacon cheeseburger can only be regarded as healthful compared with a double bacon cheeseburger.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. November 3, 2009. The future of this ecologically rich area is now in the hands of oil and gas companies that have leased thousands of acres to drill in the Marcellus Shale.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. October 1, 2009. Have the necessary precautions been put in place by the state to safeguard drinking water for 9 million people?
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. August 5, 2009. Methane released from gas drilling has caused a fatal explosion and water contamination across seven counties in Pennsylvania.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. June 25, 2009. The paper published a story about the virtues of natural gas drilling that read like an industry power point presentation.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. May 26, 2009. Congress is having second thoughts about the environmental dangers posed by the burgeoning gas drilling industry.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. May 26, 2009. A massive natural gas project could pollute fresh water supplies for New York, Philadelphia, Camden and Trenton, and other areas.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. February 27, 2009. The state has done little to study the impacts drilling might have on water supplies and is unprepared to treat the waste water it produces.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. December 3, 2008. For months public concern has been growing that upstate mining may be threatening the water supply for New York City's 9 million people.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. November 20, 2008. One of the greatest threats to our water and our health may come from a process involved in natural gas drilling. But EPA is keeping mum.
David Morris, AlterNet. October 9, 2008. The new bailout plan passed by Congress may have put the nail in the coffin on Pickens' dangerous energy proposal.
Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor. September 18, 2008. Water and chemicals injected at high pressure can extract more gas and may threaten drinking water in places like New York and Texas.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. August 21, 2008. The controversial oil magnate has made headlines for a supposed conversion to cleaner energy, but there's ample reason to be suspicious.
Abbas Maleki, MIT Center for International Studies. October 30, 2007. A major natural gas pipeline that would stretch from Iran to Pakistan and India faces serious hurdles, including fierce opposition from the U.S.