Riverkeeper Blogs

On November 10, 2011, the industry-dominated U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) advisory panel on fracking released its second report, which expressed mild frustration at the pace of government and industry’s efforts to implement the panel’s August 2011 recommendations.  “Progress to date is less than the […] More

On September 22, 2011, Riverkeeper testified at the New York City Council Committee on Environmental Protection’s public hearing on hydraulic fracturing (“hydrofracking”).  Chief among the concerns we expressed to the Council is that DEC continues to rush the regulatory process, seriously limiting the public’s opportunity […] More

Credit WVSORO.org Thank you for your ongoing support in the fight against the rush to fracking in New York State.  We are at a crossroads and the next few months are critical to how fracking will move forward here. Last week, the DEC released its […] More

In a Riverkeeper exclusive interview by Karen Rybold-Chin, Lisa Graves, Executive Director of The Center for Media and Democracy, talks about the task forces of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the work going on to secretly advance its agenda, targeting legal rules that […] More

When: August 23, 2011, 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Where: Katonah Village Library, The Garden Room, 26 Bedford Road, Katonah, N.Y. 10536 NY Senator Greg Ball (R, C- Patterson) will hold a hearing on August 23, 2011 to examine the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing (also […] More

On August 11, 2011, after 90 days of deliberation, a seven-member U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) advisory panel released an interim report presenting recommendations to reduce the environmental impacts from shale gas production. The panel’s recommendations may serve as a major turning point in the […] More

Range Resources (“Range”) has filed a countersuit against a family that sued Range for alleged methane contamination of their water, claiming that the family “conspired to produce misleading test results to get the EPA involved in the case.”[1] Parker County, Texas, residents Steven and Shlya […] More

For Immediate Release June 27, 2011 Contact: Mike Morosi 202-225-6335 (office) Washington, DC – Following several reports in The New York Times, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today sent letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) questioning the […] More