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"EPA Subpoenas Halliburton Over Fracking Fluids"

"The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it has issued a subpoena to Halliburton for not revealing information about liquids used in a natural gas drilling technique called 'fracking.'"

Source: Reuters, 11/10/2010

"Criticism Runs Deep for Spill Commission Findings"

Critics of a presidential commission's preliminary findings that largely supported BP's internal probe of the Gulf oil spill questioned Monday how anyone could suggest money wasn't put ahead of safety in the days before the disaster.

Source: AP, 11/09/2010

"Shell Presses for Drilling in Arctic"

"Eager to win approval for its stalled plan to drill for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, Royal Dutch Shell is beginning a public lobbying campaign, including national advertising, on Monday."

Source: NYTimes, 11/09/2010

"Energy Busts Create Mess"

New York state is strewn with abandoned wells -- the relics of drilling booms before the current gas bonanza. Their owners are long gone, but they have left a legacy of pollution, sticking taxpayers with the cleanup costs.

Source: Albany Times-Union, 11/09/2010

"Karl Rove: 'Climate Is Gone'"

"Republican strategist Karl Rove, who helped organize the outside groups that spent millions to install Republicans in the midterm elections, spent election day celebrating with Pennsylvania’s growing drilling industry." He told them "Climate is gone," and not to worry about federal rules on fracking.

Source: Think Progress, 11/05/2010

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