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Drillers and enviros try to set fracking standards together
Mar 22, 2013
Can natural-gas companies and environmental groups together set standards for fracking that will win the public's trust? An experiment in Pennsylvania will try.
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A Pennsylvania fracking settlement answers a few questions
Mar 21, 2013
The case arises in the first region of Pennsylvania to see fracking for natural gas. A family with a well contaminated by chemicals received a payment,
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What fracking means for manufacturing and the environment: BS detector
Mar 11, 2013
We look at energy and environment myths and misperceptions we're uncovering on the Petro-state beat.
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In the fracking fields, a fight over who regulates
Mar 7, 2013
In Pennsylvania's shale-gas region, many cities and towns have passed ordinances restricting where drillers can put their fracking wells, equipment and wastewater. Now a case is before the state's Supreme Court.
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Fracking concerns: An extended Petro-State Frack Check of 'Promised Land'
Jan 16, 2013
A few additional fact checks and comments on "Promised Land," the Matt Damon film on fracking and natural gas.
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Natural gas fracking: big trouble or bridge fuel?
Jan 15, 2013
In our Petro-State podcast, we talk to Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations about the potential of natural gas to transition us to a low-carbon future. And we play fracking BS Detector.
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The battle over exporting natural gas
Jan 11, 2013
Sellers want a bigger market, but buyers say that will lead to higher prices.
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Fact Check: The truth behind fracking claims in 'Promised Land'
Jan 8, 2013
Dead cows in Pennsylvania? Sorting out fact from fiction in the new feature movie "Promised Land" starring Matt Damon, which examines the underworld of the booming industry of hydraulic fracturing
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'Promised Land': Fracking as Hollywood tells it
Jan 3, 2013
"Promised Land," opening nationally in theaters, provides a nuanced account of fracking in rural Pennsylvania -- up to a point.
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Climate change, fracking to take center stage in 2013
Dec 25, 2012
Marketplace sustainability reporter Scott Tong shares his predictions on what's next for the United States when it comes to energy, fracking and climate change.
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