Resources

Studies, Reports and Guides 

• Earthworks: Hydraulic Fracturing 101
• Earthworks: The Oil and Gas Industry’s Exclusions and Exemptions to Major Environmental Statutes (PDF download)
• Earthworks: Our Drinking Water at Risk: What EPA and the Oil and Gas Industry Don't Want Us to Know About Hydraulic Fracturing
• Earthworks: Health Survey Results of Current and Former Dish/Clark Texas Residents
• Earthworks: Marcellus Shale Formation Report 08
• Fordham Environmental Law Review: Untested Waters: The Rise of Hydraulic Fracturing in Oil and Gas Production and the Need to Revisit Regulation
• The Endocrine Disruption Exchange: Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview (Includes a 45-minute video and summaries by state of health effects)
• The Endocrine Disruption Exchange: Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective
• JM Barth and Associates: Unanswered Questions About The Economic Impact of Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale
• National Resources Defense Council: Drilling Down: Protecting Western Communities from the Health and Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Production
• The Earth Institute (Columbia University) Urban Design Lab: Hancock and the Marcellus Shale: Gas Extraction Along the Upper Delaware
• Otsego 2000: Otsego 2000 Comments on the EPA Hydrofracking Study by Nicole Dillingham
• Otsego 2000: Radioactive Waste from Horizontal Hydrofracking by James L. Northrup
• New York City Department of Environmental Protection: Natural Gas Drilling in Marcellus Shale
• New York City Department of Environmental Protection: Final Impact Assessment Report (PDF Download)
• Riverkeeper Fractured Communities: Case Studies of the Environmental Impacts of Industrial Gas Drilling (PDF Download)

News Coverage

Videos

Movies

Data and Mapping Resources

     
FracTracker - Data and mapping tool from the Center for Health Environments and Communities, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (View or create maps of Pennsylvania gas leases, active wells, water withdrawal sites, violations, spills, pipelines, and more)

Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research - Maps and Animations of the Marcellus Shale and PA Gas Leases  

Community Legal Resources  

Resources for Dealing with Water Contamination and Spills      

  Organizations 

 
 National/multi-state
Delaware Riverkeeper
Earthjustice
Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project
Natural Resources Defense Council

Colorado
The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
Oil & Gas Accountability Project

New York
Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition
Catskill Citizens
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Catskill Watershed Corporation
Chenango Delaware Otsego Gas Drilling Opposition Group (Un-NaturalGas.org)
The Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes
Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County
The Meredith Landowners Coalition
Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation
NYH2O
NYRAD
Otsego 2000
Shaleshock Action Alliance
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter
Sustainable Otsego
United For Action
Un-NaturalGas.org
Riverkeeper

Ohio
NEOGAP
                                
Pennsylvania
Allegheny Defense Project
Center for Coalfield Justice
Center for Healthy Environments & Communities, Univ. of Pgh.
Clean Water Action - PA
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability
Group Against Smog and Pollution
Marcellus Shale Protest
NE PA Gas Action     
PennEnvironment
Protecting Our Waters
Sierra Club - Allegheny Group
Spectra Energy Watch
Three Rivers Waterkeeper

Texas
Texas Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP)

West Virginia
West Virginia Citizen Action Group
West Virginia Surface Owners' Rights Organization
Wetzel County Action Group