Fracking and Petrochemical News
Here are the latest articles written by the Center for Coalfield Justice team on the subject of fracking and petrochemicals. We regularly publish new information so check back often for new articles.
Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Part II: DEP’s Landfill Leachate Radioactivity Report, How State Regulators Help Industry Cover-Up the Dangers of Its Waste
This is Part II of a blog series looking at the radioactivity of oil and gas waste. If you have not read part one yet, we recommend doing so to […]
Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste Part I: The Cecil Pipeyard, Washington County’s Open Hazardous Secret
The oil and gas industry in our region is plagued by a very dangerous, open secret: the waste it produces is highly radioactive. Despite what industry representatives, members of Congress, […]
The Connections Between Crypto Mining, Fracking, and Data Centers in Pennsylvania
A cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network. Individual coin ownership records are stored in digital ledgers, which are computerized […]
For CNX, “Radical Transparency” means changing the rules in the middle of the game
Remember when you were a kid and the schoolyard bully started losing a game? For them, the quickest fix was simple: change the rules. It may have worked on the […]
Supplementary Resources
Fracking
- US Energy Information Administration: Natural gas explained
- Video | Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
- Video | Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing
- Video | The Sky is Pink
- Video | Facts About Fracking
- Fossil-Fueled Foolery: An Illustrated Primer on the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive Tactics
- Direct Support Fund provides support for grassroots groups or individuals working on social change on shale gas issues
Waste Disposal
- All Costs, No Benefit: Oil & Gas Waste on Pennsylvania Roadways
- Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning
- Feature: 60 Years Of Fracking, 20 Years Of Shale Gas: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Infrastructure Is Hiding In Plain Sight
- Public Herald Tenorm Investigations
- Halt the Harm's Hellbent Panel Discussion: One Community's Fight to Stop a Fracking Waste Injection Well
Petrochemical Processing
- Greenpeace report: The Climate Emergency Unpacked: How Consumer Goods Companies Are Fueling Big Oil's Plastic Expansion
- One-pager on petrochemicals - English
- One-pager on petrochemicals - Spanish
- Video | The Connection Between Fracking and Plastics
- Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
- PFAS-REACH: Interactive PFAS MAP
- Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: How Laundering Fossil Fuels in Agrochemicals Puts the Climate and the Planet at Risk by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
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