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Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Need to Protect Fresh and Brackish Groundwater Resources During Unconventional Oil and Gas Development

Our analysis of groundwater protections in 17 oil- and natural-gas-producing states found that definitions are ambiguous and often not protective to federal standards.

Technical Report

The Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Proposed Natural-Gas Pipeline Build-Out in New York

We estimate that the potential buildout of the ten proposed natural gas pipelines and associated compressor stations in New York State would increase statewide greenhouse gas emissions, driving the state's 2030 greenhouse gas goals virtually out of reach.

Technical Report

Long-Term Viability of Underground Natural Gas Storage in California

An Independent Review of Scientific and Technical Information

Technical Report

A Clean Energy Pathway for New Jersey

We find that a 50% reduction in power sector emissions is necessary, affordable and achievable by 2030.

Peer-Reviewed Publication

17.6 million people live within one mile of an active oil or gas well in the U.S.

Our new spatial analysis estimates the population living in proximity to an oil or gas well.

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chemical use is widespread in routine oil and gas production operations

Routine, unregulated operations use many of the same chemicals as regulated hydraulic fracturing activities, study finds.

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Peer-Reviewed Publications March 5, 2018

The Need to Protect Fresh and Brackish Groundwater Resources During Unconventional Oil and Gas Development

Dominic DiGiulio, PhD, Seth B.C. Shonkoff, PhD, MPH, Robert Jackson, PhD

Technical Reports February 27, 2018

The Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Proposed Natural-Gas Pipeline Build-Out in New York

Elena Krieger, PhD, Eliza Czolowski, MPS

Technical Reports January 18, 2018

Long-Term Viability of Underground Natural Gas Storage in California: An Independent Review of Scientific and Technical Information

Seth B.C. Shonkoff, PhD, MPH, Lee Ann Hill, MPH, Eliza Czolowski, MPS

Technical Reports October 3, 2017

A Clean Energy Pathway for New Jersey

Elena Krieger, PhD, Boris Lukanov, PhD