Hydraulic Fracturing in the News

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is getting more and more attention. Here's some of the reporting out this week.

• The documentary Gasland premiered Monday on HBO. Here's the Daily Show interview and the Science Friday interview.
• Vanity Fair: A Colossal Fracking Mess
• Scranton Times-Tribune: Little oversight, looming problems for Pa. gas industry, Impact of natural gas drilling environmental woes could linger, More than an eighth of Lackawanna County land leased to drilling companies, more wells likely, Hazards posed by natural gas drilling not always underground
• Greenwire: In Fracking Debate,' Disclosure' Is in the Eye of the Beholder

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