Energy News Archives

November 2012

03 Nov 2012. Climate: US Governs Shale Gas. Le Monde interview with Robert Howarth on the USEPA NSPS for Oil & Gas. Download english translation

October 2012

04 Oct 2012. N.Y. judge overturns Binghamton ban. Rueters. Download the full ruling

Sept 2012

Aug 2012

July 2012

18 July 2012. Testimony: Robert W. Howarth, Ph.D. at Forum on Hydraulic Fracturing (Sen. Avella, NYS Senate Democrats)

June 2012

National Research Council. Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies.

May 2012

31 MAY 2012. Statement of Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune Before the Committee on Oversight & Government Reform.  >> download

31 MAY 2012. Robert Howarth's Testimony Before the Committee

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April 2012

Medical Society for the State of New York News. Update on Hydraulic Fracturing by Sheila Bushkin-Bedient, MD, MPH, Geoffrey E. Moore, MD, FACSM and The Preventive Medicine and Family Health Committee of the Medical Society of the State of New York - Volume 68 • Number 4 • mssny.org

February 2012

Decision of Anshutz Exploration Corporation v. Town of Dryden. In this case the court was asked to determine whether a local municipality may use its power to regulate land use to prohibit exploration for, and production of, oil and natural gas. >> DECISION

Decision of Cooperstown Holstein Corp. v. Town of Middlefield. Town of Middlefield, Ostego County, New York becomes the second local municipality to prohibit oil and natural gas activities through land use regulation. >> DECISION

January 2012

11 Jan 2012. USEPA's Comments on NY's revised draft SGEIS and Proposed Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations. Additional information is available from the EPA website

December 2011

November 2011

Synapse/CSI Report. Toward a Sustainable Future for the U.S. Power Sector: Beyond Business as Usual 2011

September 2011

Photographs: Flooded Well Site in Northern PA

August 2011

23 Aug 2011. USGS cuts Marcellus resources >>Download report

July 2011

Pembina Institute. Is natural gas a climate change solution for Canada?

REN21. Renewables 2011 Global Status Report.

Brookings Institution. Sizing the Green Economy

June 2011

Policy Department Economic and Scientific Policy. Impacts of Shale Gas and Shale Oil Extraction on the Environment and on Human Health. This document was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

May 2011

Research and Policy Recommendations for Hydraulic Fracturing and Shale-Gas Extraction. A white paper by Robert Jackson, et al. Duke University Center on Global Change & Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

April 2011

Written Testimony of Conrad Daniel Volz, DrPH, MPH before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and its Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, Joint Hearing "Natural Gas Drilling, Public Health and Environmental Impacts", April 12, 2011.

Earthworks. Natural Gas Flowback: How the Texas gas boom affects community health and safety

March 2011

February 2011

January 2011

Screening Health Risk Assessment, Sublette County WY. Additional information available through the Sublette County website

Tyndall Center. Shale Gas: A Provisional Assessment of Climate Change and Environmental Impacts.

Unconventional Gas Regulatory Framework-Jurisdictional Review. This report summarizes the findings of the Jurisdictional Review Task Team and identifies opportunities to be considered for Alberta's unconventional gas regulatory framework.