Tracking the players in the ever-growing energy and environmental world.
Pipelines for oil and gas zigzag across Texas, but one in particular has a lot of people talking. Read all the reports from our five-part collaborative series on the Keystone XL pipeline.
A new study is making headlines this week for linking increased earthquake activity to wells used to dispose of wastewater from the drilling practice known as “fracking.” Today seismologists William Ellsworth and Stephen Horton (who published the study) are doing a live chat with the journal Science. You can read along (and chime in with […]
The Keystone XL pipeline will go through 17 counties in Texas, crossing the property of 850 landowners. And not all of them are happy about it.
At a meeting of the Seismological Society of AmericaĀ today, scientists for the U.S. Geological Survey presented their much-anticipated findings linking the oil and gas industry with an increase in earthquakes in parts of the United States. (You can find NPR’s report on the findings here.) TheĀ abstractĀ released this week, which is still the only publicly available […]
With the proposed Keystone XL pipeline has come the claim that the oil it will carry is a unique risk.
Cushing, Oklahoma is in an unlikely economic predicament: It has too much oil.
Thereās been lots of finger pointing over gasoline prices going up over the past few months. Some attribute the price jump to international instability, others say oil speculators are gaming the system. Republican presidential hopefuls, not surprisingly, are blaming the President. But have we seen this before? Today,Ā an article in the Washington Post cites an […]
Today StateImpact Texas reporter Dave Fehling takes a look at the effects of Texas’ growing poultry industry. Massive farms have brought up concerns about pollution: where all the waste from the chicken plants is going, and what effect its having on Texas waters. Above is a slideshow where you can see some images of “Big […]
Texas’ growing poultry production has also increased concerns about pollution: the run-off of manure and wastewater released by processing plants into streams and creeks.
The original version of this article, released on March 30, 2012, incorrectly attributed the following quoteĀ to an EPA press release: āIn a press release today, the EPA stated that āmultiple investigations into the claims showed no link between Range Resourcesā operations and water contamination.āā The Texas Oil and Gas Association provided this quote in its […]
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