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He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.

Read the full article at www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/c...

Big news! 🎉 FracTracker was featured in The New York Times for our work mapping 168K+ abandoned oil & gas wells near U.S. national parks.

Together with @protectparks.bsky.social, we’re bringing attention to the health & climate risks of these neglected sites.

The city of Hilliard is considering rescinding tax abatement agreements with Amazon because the site plan it was based on when approved is being amended to allow for 228 fuel cells. The power plant on site will emit about 1.5 M pounds of C02 daily into the air over homes and schools next door. (Dispatch Photo)

Hilliard residents protest massive C02-emitting Amazon and @aepnews.bsky.social data center near homes and schools.

City appeal: "It's not a data center. It's a power plant with a data center attached to it." Verbal Corvo: bit.ly/4oAHY61

@fractracker.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social

Know someone who wants to help shape how FracTracker shares data and stories that advance public health and environmental justice? Learn more and apply today at www.fractracker.org/careers 🌐

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is unproven technology, yet it may be coming to Ohio.

Underground pipelines filled with carbon dioxide can leak or break, poisoning people above ground. Remember Satartia, Miss.

Learn more at this Nov. 6 webinar.

@fractracker.bsky.social @spj-posts.bsky.social

Love the Community Sentinels! Shamyra Lavigne-Davey (rep Sharon Lavigne) @risestjames.bsky.social
Melissa Troutman @wildearthguardians.bsky.social
Sarah Martik @coalfldjustice.bsky.social
Allie Rosenbluth @oilchange.bsky.social
Cesar Aguirre @ccejn
Jo Banner @descendantsproject.bsky.social

After hosting this event annually for the past decade, we’ve decided to shift the Sentinel Awards to an every-other-year schedule. This means we will not be hosting the awards in 2025 — but don’t worry, exciting plans are already underway for November 2026!

Safeguard Our Backyards: Join the Campaign for Health-Based Protective Buffers from Fracking | Halt the Harm Network ​The Marcellus shale industry has been allowed to drill dangerously close to Pennsylvania homes, schools, hospitals, and waterways for years, and dozens of scientific studies now confirm this has harm...

PA communities face health & environmental harms from fracking near homes, schools & waterways. Watch Protective Buffers PA’s webinar to hear residents’ stories & learn about our push for stronger statewide setback laws & how you can help.
network.halttheharm.net/c/recording-...

Join us in online or in person at Patagonia Pittsburgh and Dublin stores. Excited to speak alongside @protectpt.bsky.social and Stop Shannon LNG
✊🏼 RSVP at hybridfossilgasevent.splashthat.com

A block of text reads: “If the oil and gas industry truly wanted fewer lawsuits, it would work with communities instead of trying to silence them. And it would listen to regulators instead of trying to get legal safeguards repealed. Instead, these companies are putting their profits over people. Louisiana deserves better.” Below, the signature line: James Hiatt, Lake Charles, Louisiana The writer is the founder of For a Better Bayou.

💡As James Hiatt writes in The Washington Post, suing polluters isn’t an “attack on industry.” It’s the only path left for justice when companies put profits over people.

👉 www.washingtonpost.com/.../trump-dc...

Hart Energy - Home Hart Energy is the premier information resource for commodity prices, Brent Crude & WTI futures, breaking news, exclusive interviews, opinions, insights, and in-depth analysis on the global energy ind...

California Resources is acquiring Berry Corp in a $717M all-stock deal, increasing oil production in California & Utah’s Uinta Basin. The merger deepens fossil fuel control in areas already suffering significant environmental & public health impacts from drilling.

Comment Opposing the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP) – Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit Application (SAW-2024-01961) - FracTracker Alliance FracTracker Alliance opposes the Southeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, citing risks to water, health, climate, and procedural fairness.

🚨 FracTracker Alliance opposes the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, citing risks to water, public health, climate, and inadequate review of cumulative impacts.

🔗 Read more: www.fractracker.org/2025/09/comm...

Children sue EQT over illness, distress they say are linked to company’s WV operations After leaving homes near EQT’s fracking sites in West Virginia, 3 families are seeking damages for harm they say the Pittsburgh firm caused.

Four kids who lived near EQT’s fracking sites in northern WV are suing, claiming the company knowingly exposed them to toxic, cancer-causing, radioactive chemicals—making them sick and forcing them from their homes.

‼️Homer City could soon host the largest gas-powered data center campus in the U.S.

Join the PA DEP public hearing on Sept 17, 6–9 PM, 711 Pratt Dr, Indiana, PA to speak out about a proposed 4.5-GW gas plant and its potential air quality, health, and environmental impacts!

Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0050: Comment Opposing LNG by Rail Transport - FracTracker Alliance FracTracker Alliance opposes PHMSA’s proposal to allow LNG-by-rail, citing extreme safety risks, inequitable impacts, and lack of public need.

🚨 FracTracker Alliance is calling on PHMSA to keep LNG off rail lines.

PHMSA is considering a regulatory change to allow LNG-by-rail—despite irreducible safety risks to communities & the environment. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.

A new study estimates the health cost of the oil and gas industry including lifecycle annual burdens of 91,000 premature deaths to PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone as well as 216,000 incidences of NO2-attributable childhood-onset asthma. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Records reveal EPA surveillance of whistleblower who tested samples near BioLab fire In an exclusive interview with GPB's Pamela Kirkland, environmental whistleblower Scott Smith discusses documents about suspected surveillance while he gathered soil and water samples after the BioLab...

🚨 Nearly a year after the BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, GA, residents still seek answers. Independent tester Scott Smith found toxic chemicals—dioxins & PAHs—but new records suggest the EPA monitored his work and downplayed the results. www.gpb.org/news/2025/08...

Explore FracTracker’s new data portals! Access nearly 5 million oil and gas well records and 30+ datasets on refineries, pipelines, power plants, and more—free and open to everyone.

Visit www.fractracker.org/data for more + watch the webinar recording to learn more: youtu.be/uwmVxflzlKA?...

🚨 Challenge the AI Power Supply!

The AI Horizons Summit is in Bakery Square this week, promoting Pittsburgh as the next AI & data center hub—powered by gas. Join the rally to demand a future that works for people AND the planet!

📅 Sept 10–11 | Bakery Square + Mellon Park
RSVP👉

Freeport Township Declares Disaster Emergency After Residents Impacted By A Gas Related Water Contamination Event Have Been Without Permanent Water Supplies For 3 Years-- We’re Not Blaming Anybody, We Just Want Good, Clean Drinking Water On June 23, 2025, Freeport Township Supervisors in Greene County took the extraordinary step of declaring a Disaster Emergency after reside...

Freeport Twp, PA declared a Disaster Emergency after a 2022 “frack-out” from EQT’s gas wells contaminated local water supplies. For 3 years, ~100 residents have relied on temporary water tanks with no permanent solution in place.

Watchdog Urges Against CA End-of-Session Power Grab To Increase Energy Costs And Benefit Prop 50 Donors As “Betrayal of the Electorate” Consumer Watchdog warned California legislative leaders that ignoring legislative rules and racing through a utility-backed regional electricity deregulation plan in the last ten days of legislative s...

Consumer Watchdog is warning against a last-minute legislative move in Sacramento that could raise energy costs for Californians while benefiting major Prop 50 donors like AES.

Many oil drilling permits going unused Drilling permits, once plentiful in California, have become a prized commodity within Kern County’s oil industry. Companies that have them can boast to investors, while those without may complain of

Only 1% of CA drilling permits were used in 3 years, many unused due to health & environmental safeguards.

Companies leaving for looser-regulation states should see this as a warning, not an opportunity: fossil fuel extraction is killing us.

📢 Big news! FracTracker has launched two new public data portals giving you free access to millions of oil, gas, and petrochemical records. Map infrastructure, analyze community impacts, and take action. 🌎

🔗 Explore the portals → fractracker.org/data

The health burden of chemicals used to make clothes may harm children the most! In response to chemicals and plastics in kids’ clothing, we’re calling on The Children’s Place, Carter’s, and H&M to stop making so many clothes out of polyester plastic! Take action today: takeaction.io/ehsc/tell-th...

📷 Unveiling FracTracker’s New Data Portals

Oil & Gas Wells Portal → 5M+ standardized well records across the U.S.
Petrochemical Portal → 20+ datasets on facilities.

Join our webinar on Friday, Aug 22 | 12–1 PM EDT to learn more: bit.ly/DataPortalsW...

California is sunsetting oil refineries without a plan for what's next Faced with a looming fuel crunch, some worry California will push aside its efforts to combat climate change to keep gasoline flowing.

California is closing two major refineries, cutting 17% of its oil capacity. 🚨 Without a just transition, lawmakers risk siding with Big Oil—fast-tracking permits and pausing profit caps—while workers, communities, and climate progress get left behind.

Finding Data with FracTracker Portals: Accessing Oil & Gas and Petrochemical Information | Halt the Harm Network Accessing critical environmental data shouldn't require navigating through dozens of government websites and deciphering inconsistent formats. FracTracker has developed powerful tools that bring scatt...

✨ FracTracker is releasing two new data portals that make vital oil, gas & petrochemical information more accessible than ever.

📅 Join our webinar: Friday, Aug 22, 12–1 PM EDT

In Appalachia, fracking is not the job creator the industry claims Oil and gas production isn’t translating to more jobs for residents of heavily fracked communities, new research shows.

Frackalachia: Top oil-and gas-producing counties in Ohio, PA and WV have net job & population loss from 2008, just before the shale-gas boom began. @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com : bit.ly/3JyhHWK

@repgreglandsman.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social

Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community - Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Seeking to Protect the Residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania The Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community seeks to protect the residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania, with emphasis on those in Bea...

Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC) is leading local efforts to hold Shell accountable and protect public health in southwestern Pennsylvania. Visit BCMAC’s website to learn more!

🚨 Shell Polymers Monaca has reported 17.9B lbs of air emissions since 2020, incl. 400M lbs from malfunctions. PA DEP has issued 43 violations for toxic releases impacting EJ communities like Aliquippa, Beaver Falls & Monaca.