A Pennsylvania bill that would limit fracking near homes and schools was shelved this summer right before a scheduled committee vote. In a small town in shale country, accounts of misery and discord show the stakes.
Pennsylvania children living near fracking sites at birth are two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with leukemia during early childhood than those who did not live near such facilities, a new study has found.
Activists have been protesting in front of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf, northern Germany for 35 years. But now that the plant is set to be removed from the grid, their vigil is finally over.
Washington County residents say their neighbor is noisy, disruptive and a polluter. Their neighbor is a compressor station, and it's a quarter-mile away.
Ten oil refineries in the United States are emitting levels of the pollutant benzene well above the federal government's "action level" limit, according to a new report.
