Hydraulic Fracturing (Hydrofracking): Pennsylvania

Nathaniel R. Warner et al., 109 Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci., no. 30, 2012, at 11961-66.

Barry G. Rabe & Christopher Borick, 30 Rev. of Poly. Research 321 (2013).

W. Devin Wagstaff, 20 N.Y.U. Env. L. J. 327 (2013).

Richard Rinaldi, 24 Widener L. J. 385 (2015).

Alexander Bukac, 49 U. S.F. L. Rev. 361 (2015).

Stephanie A. Malin & Kathryn Teigen DeMaster, 47 J. Rural Stud. 278 (2016).
Abstract Only.

Megan S. Haines, 87 PA. Bar Ass. Quart. 103 (2016).

Christian C. Hagen-Fredericksen, 34 J. L. & Comm. 375 (2016).

Pennsylvania Superior Court decision in 2018 that allows a family to proceed with their lawsuit against an energy company extracting natural gas on an adjacent property for removing gas beneath the owner's property without compensation. Goes against the rule of capture on the idea that the gas in the Marcellus Shale does not migrate freely like other gas does.

Magistrate Judge threw out the verdict against Cabot and ordered the parties to come to a settlement.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania case in which municipalities and individuals challenged the constitutionality of the act that established the framework for fracking in Pennsylvania, which preempted local regulation and gave power of eminent domain to natural gas companies. The Commonwealth Court had found the Act unconstitutional in part and enjoined certain provisions. The Supreme Court held that sections of the Act that allowed the Public Utility Commission to determine if a local ordinance violated the Municipalities Planning Code could not be severed from the unconstitutional provisions of the Act ; special provisions that prohibited health care professionals from accessing information on chemicals used in the fracking process was unconstitutional; the provision that the DEP could notify only public not private drinking water facilities in the event of a spill caused by fracking was unconstitutional; and the provision that authorized taking of real property for storage of gas violated the public use requirement and was an unconstitutional taking.

List of the chemicals used in the fracking process in the state.

Main DEP Page for Information on Activities in the Marcellus Shale.

Site for reporting production and waste.

Provides an overview of the entire process.

Variety of maps of the Marcellus and Utica Shale.

Shows Fracking Activity.

2015 Report Compiled by PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center.

Report conducted by the Environmental Defense Fund to determine the True scale of methane emissions.

Report compiled by PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center.

Report by the Energy Information Administration.

Results of a three year investigation undertaken by the group Public Herald, which is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization.

Report from the EPA published in May 2015.

Report published by the EPA in May 2015.