Just under the wire, the EPA has given its official “comments” in response to New York State’s draft plan for drilling for shale gas in the upstate Marcellus field. The EPA found the mammoth 800+ page draft does not adequately address issues of wastewater, air quality, land impact and several other problems. It urges the […]
Last year, Tim DeChristopher, a student in Utah, bid $1.8 million he did not have in a federal oil lease auction. He won the leases. He stated he did it to protect the environment and to prevent further global warming, arguing that the danger from this drilling was too great and immediate to try to […]
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