Fracking for dollars: Articles about big paydays for mineral rights overlook...
Sometimes the most important part of a story is what it doesn't say. I was thinking that this week when I sat down to read another major story in the New York Times about hydraulic fracturing, or...
View ArticleNew York’s Gov. Cuomo needs to learn that you can’t frack your way out of the...
Your heart has to go out to the dairy farmers of upstate New York. They work long hours to bring staples of the American diet to your table every morning -- and yet it's just getting harder and harder...
View ArticleMineral royalties fraud: A new legal frontier
This week I saw a story out of New York State, where officials are in the process of debating whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas in some areas whether thousands of...
View Article“The poison beneath us”: Big Oil’s toxic legacy grows to unthinkable proportions
I became an environmental lawyer because of the reckless way that Big Oil has been treating the American landscape for decades. My first big case was launched more than 20 years ago, after we learned...
View Article“The Sky Is Pink,” and how big oil and gas companies get to drill first,...
I read a lot of environmental headlines every day, but this one really caught my eye. It said, "After six decades of fracking, regulation considered." The story was out of California, but its essence...
View ArticleReason No. 317 to be alarmed about fracking: It’s hot outside!
It was Bob Dylan who famously said that you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. In the summer of 2012, you don't need a weatherman to know it's hot out there. Heck, just open your...
View ArticleBlinding us with pseudo-science: Tainted studies distort real fracking story
When it comes to science, the big money folks behind Big Oil and Gas -- and their ideological buddies on the Far Right -- have two very different strategies. When confronted with the many, many studies...
View Article“We’re drilling all over the place”: Why Americans have to protest fracking...
Remember when the election of Barack Obama was supposed to change everything on environmental policy? Some days that seems like it was a long time ago, doesn't it? To be sure, no administration could...
View ArticleThe people know the truth: Fracking just isn’t safe
This past week, the natural gas industry -- the people who've brought fracking to a community near you -- held a major convention in Philadelphia, not far from the Marcellus Shale region where some of...
View ArticleJindal leaves the polluted waters of Louisiana to test the political waters...
It's been a pretty stressful month down here in Louisiana. Folks in communities like Braithwaite over in Plaquemines Parish are still trying to dry out from Hurricane Isaac, which was the worst storm...
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