09
May
Oil and fracking booms creating housing busts
As exploration increases, employees often find themselves without adequate or affordable housing.
09
May
Oil and fracking booms creating housing busts
As exploration increases, employees often find themselves without adequate or affordable housing.
08
May
Fracking is draining water resources, especially in the West
New reports say hydrofracking threatens groundwater resources.
07
May
Worker camps from natural gas boom cause headaches for local officials
Wheeling, West Virginia has 14 campgrounds, and most of them house out-of-state men who work at fracking sites. Some of these labor camps were set up without permits, and others have been cited for improper sewage disposal and violence.
18
Mar
University of Tennessee gets OK for natural gas extraction on public land
The school plans to fund a study into the effects of fracking — by allowing fracking.
05
Feb
02
Feb
06
Jan
04
Dec
Is fracking making livestock sick?
Study found ill and dead animals on 24 farms near natural gas drilling sites.
29
Oct
Chuck Leavell discusses ‘Doom and Gloom’
The Rolling Stones keyboardist and MNN co-founder sheds light on the band’s new single, which includes a reference to hydraulic fracturing, aka ‘fracking.’
09
Oct
Lady Gaga backs Yoko Ono’s anti-fracking coalition
Pop star and social media powerhouse encourages her millions of fans to support Ono’s Artists Against Fracking campaign.
