"Gas Rush" is the place to find original insight and analysis on one of the most heated environmental debates in America. As fracking spreads across the country, Truthout chronicles earthquakes, blowouts, political battles and a swelling grassroots opposition. Gas drilling is quickly changing the landscape in Washington and our own backyards, and it's time to hold the government and industry accountable.
Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
By Peter Pearsall, Yes! Magazine | Report
Ohio Fracking CEO Pleads Not Guilty in Federal Toxic Waste-Dumping Case
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Former Oil Executive, Doctors and Scientists Urge Obama to Wait on Fracking Exports Plan
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Why Are Cows Tails Dropping Off?
By Elizabeth Royte, The Nation | Report
Anti-Fracking Activists' Secret War, With the World in the Balance
By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch, News Analysis
Fracking in Suburbia
By Andrew Spear and Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Video Report
Fracking Boomtown
By Mike Ludwig and Andrew Spear, Truthout | Video Report
The Environmental Health Costs of a Petrochemical Future
By Sue Sturgis, Facing South | News Analysis
New Yorkers Rally to Urge Governor Cuomo to Reject Fracking
By Sara Jerving, PRWatch | Report
Biologist and Writer Sandra Steingraber Invites Fellow Activists to Pledge Nonviolent Resistance to Fracking in New York State
By Sandra Steingraber, Don't Frack New York | Speech
The Gas Menagerie
By Paul Hond, Columbia Magazine | News Analysis
Schlumberger Shutdown Joins Summer of Solidarity
By Nell Gagnon , Shaleshock Direct Action Working Group | Report
The Summer of Solidarity: Direct Action Against Extraction
By Candice Bernd, Campus Progress | Report
Minnesota Amish vs. Fracking
By Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog | Report
The Frack War Comes Home
By Peter Rugh, Waging Nonviolence | News Analysis
Hundreds Protest Fracking in Ohio as Drilling Expands
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Fracking Fatalities: Organized Labor Implores Federal Agencies to Stop the Killings
By Mike Elk, In These Times | Report
How Rural America Got Fracked: The Environmental Nightmare You Know Nothing About
By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch | News Analysis
Fracking Fluids Could Contaminate Freshwater Aquifers, Says Study
By Christine Shearer, Truthout | Report
Fracking to Poison Your Beer? RT News Interviews Truthout's Mike Ludwig
By Alyona Minkovski, RT News | Interview and Video
Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Truthout Reporter Mike Ludwig on RT: Are EPA Fracking Regulations Hurting Jobs?
By Mike Ludwig, RT | Interview
The Climate Movement Takes On Fracking: Interview With Bill McKibben
By Christine Shearer, Truthout | Interview
About That Dimock Fracking Study: Result Summaries Show Methane and Hazardous Chemicals
By Christine Shearer, Truthout | Interview
Fracking Fight: Activists Cry Foul on the EPA's Dimock Water Test Announcement
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Poll: Sixty-Five Percent of Americans Want More Fracking Regulations
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Regulators Say Fracking Wastewater Well Caused 12 Earthquakes in Ohio
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
"Public Media" Joins "Gang Greens" in Colluding With Frackers
By Maura Stephens, Truthout | News Analysis
Fracking and Psychological Operations: Empire Comes Home
By Steve Horn, Truthout | News Analysis
Josh Fox Responds to His Arrest on Capitol Hill: "The Truth That Fracking Contaminates Groundwater Is Out"
By Josh Fox, Truthout | Op-Ed
At Hearing on "Fracking," Capitol Police Arrest Director of "Gasland"
By Sari Gelzer, Truthout | Report
The Battle for America's Backyard: An Interview With "Gasland" Director Josh Fox
By Amanda Lin Costa, Truthout | Interview
Fracking Company: EPA Decision to Test Contaminated Wells in Dimock "Undercuts" Obama's Commitment to Natural Gas
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Letter to Friends and Neighbors
By Patrick R McElligott, Truthout | Letter
Letter to New York State Senator Thomas Libous
By Patrick R McElligott, Truthout | Letter
In the Clearing Stands a Boxer: One Man's Fight Against Fracking
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Truthout Reporter Mike Ludwig on the Fracking Connection Between Kasich and the Koch Brothers (2)
, RT America | Video
Kasich, Koch and Big-Industry Bucks: Why Ohio Is the Next Fracking Frontier
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Residents Alarmed by Proposal to Treat Fracking Waste in Niagara Falls
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
The Heinz Award and What I Plan to Do With It
By Sandra Steingraber, Truthout | Op-Ed
Fracking Operations Cause Thousands of Earthquakes in Arkansas
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
New Jersey Lawmakers Vote to Ban Fracking
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
America's Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm
By David Sirota, Truthout | Op-Ed
Fracking Blowout Causes Massive Spill in Pennsylvania
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Gassy Geezer Pushes Fossil Fuel
By Maura Stephens, Truthout | Op-Ed
Investigation Confirms Pennsylvania Fracking Well Blowout Was Easily Preventable, Potentially Catastrophic
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
