FracTracker Alliance
@fractracker.bsky.social
Nonprofit dedicated to mapping, analyzing, and sharing data on oil, gas, and petrochemical impacts. Our insights: fractracker.org
For more information and direct links to current work, visit linktr.ee/fractracker.
For more information and direct links to current work, visit linktr.ee/fractracker.
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Explore the New FracTracker Mobile App! We're thrilled to launch a major update to the FracTracker Mobile App for iOS & Android! Now it's even easier to track environmental changes, connect with your community & take action against fossil fuel impacts.
👉 Download the App: www.fractracker.org/apps/
👉 Download the App: www.fractracker.org/apps/
FracTracker Alliance is hiring! 🌱📊
We’re excited to share three new opportunities to engage in meaningful research, data analysis, and environmental justice work!
We’re excited to share three new opportunities to engage in meaningful research, data analysis, and environmental justice work!
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
FracTracker Alliance is hiring! 🌱📊
We’re excited to share three new opportunities to engage in meaningful research, data analysis, and environmental justice work!
We’re excited to share three new opportunities to engage in meaningful research, data analysis, and environmental justice work!
PA’s data center boom is driving a surge in fracked gas. Developers are building massive on-site gas plants to power data centers. The largest is Homer City in Indiana County, a 4.4 GW facility on a former coal plant site, potentially the biggest gas plant in the U.S.
To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Surge
A rash of data centers planned for western Pennsylvania has residents and environmentalists on edge. The sprawling complexes will be powered by plants that burn fracked natural gas, whose production h...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
PA’s data center boom is driving a surge in fracked gas. Developers are building massive on-site gas plants to power data centers. The largest is Homer City in Indiana County, a 4.4 GW facility on a former coal plant site, potentially the biggest gas plant in the U.S.
An abandoned brine processing site in Fairmont, WV became a hangout for local youth, but the soil and equipment are highly radioactive. This isn’t just a Fairmont story. The same toxic brine from oil and gas operations is often spread on roads, exposing communities far beyond the site.
West Virginia's Radioactive Party Zone - Truthdig
A woman who in her teen years unknowingly reveled at a site that was contaminated with radioactive waste is fighting for justice and change.
www.truthdig.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
An abandoned brine processing site in Fairmont, WV became a hangout for local youth, but the soil and equipment are highly radioactive. This isn’t just a Fairmont story. The same toxic brine from oil and gas operations is often spread on roads, exposing communities far beyond the site.
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BREAKING NEWS: PA Board Accepts Petition to Require No-Drill Zones for Further Study
Learn more: environmentalintegrity.org/news/pa-boar...
Learn more: environmentalintegrity.org/news/pa-boar...
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
BREAKING NEWS: PA Board Accepts Petition to Require No-Drill Zones for Further Study
Learn more: environmentalintegrity.org/news/pa-boar...
Learn more: environmentalintegrity.org/news/pa-boar...
Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board voted to accept a petition for study that could increase minimum setbacks between fracking wells and homes, schools, and drinking water sources—protections that affect 3.6 million Pennsylvanians living near fracked wells.
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board voted to accept a petition for study that could increase minimum setbacks between fracking wells and homes, schools, and drinking water sources—protections that affect 3.6 million Pennsylvanians living near fracked wells.
Two billionaires tied to fossil fuel company Venture Global bought millions of shares shortly after a meeting with senior White House officials and the company receiving a key regulatory permit that expanded LNG exports.
Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials
Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Two billionaires tied to fossil fuel company Venture Global bought millions of shares shortly after a meeting with senior White House officials and the company receiving a key regulatory permit that expanded LNG exports.
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BREAKING: We're proud to join 230+ groups to call on Congress to stop the approval and construction of new data centers. With huge impacts on water, climate, electricity bills and more, it's time to put the brakes on the unregulated data center frenzy: https://fwwat.ch/44bzr1R
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
BREAKING: We're proud to join 230+ groups to call on Congress to stop the approval and construction of new data centers. With huge impacts on water, climate, electricity bills and more, it's time to put the brakes on the unregulated data center frenzy: https://fwwat.ch/44bzr1R
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Oakland just voted 7–0 to back the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund, joining 17 other CA cities demanding Big Oil pay for the damage they caused.
Cities are leading. Sacramento, take note. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3K7LXsg
#MakePollutersPay #ClimateSuperfund
Cities are leading. Sacramento, take note. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3K7LXsg
#MakePollutersPay #ClimateSuperfund
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Oakland just voted 7–0 to back the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund, joining 17 other CA cities demanding Big Oil pay for the damage they caused.
Cities are leading. Sacramento, take note. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3K7LXsg
#MakePollutersPay #ClimateSuperfund
Cities are leading. Sacramento, take note. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3K7LXsg
#MakePollutersPay #ClimateSuperfund
East Texas communities are raising alarms over McBride Operating’s new oilfield waste site in Elysian Fields. Residents fear chemical-laden runoff could contaminate local waterways.
Pitted against waste
East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations and a worker’s death.
www.texasstandard.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
East Texas communities are raising alarms over McBride Operating’s new oilfield waste site in Elysian Fields. Residents fear chemical-laden runoff could contaminate local waterways.
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BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.
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Big news! 🎉 FracTracker was featured in The New York Times for our work mapping 168K+ abandoned oil & gas wells near U.S. national parks.
Together with @protectparks.bsky.social, we’re bringing attention to the health & climate risks of these neglected sites.
Together with @protectparks.bsky.social, we’re bringing attention to the health & climate risks of these neglected sites.
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Big news! 🎉 FracTracker was featured in The New York Times for our work mapping 168K+ abandoned oil & gas wells near U.S. national parks.
Together with @protectparks.bsky.social, we’re bringing attention to the health & climate risks of these neglected sites.
Together with @protectparks.bsky.social, we’re bringing attention to the health & climate risks of these neglected sites.
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Hilliard residents protest massive C02-emitting Amazon and @aepnews.bsky.social data center near homes and schools.
City appeal: "It's not a data center. It's a power plant with a data center attached to it." Verbal Corvo: bit.ly/4oAHY61
@fractracker.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social
City appeal: "It's not a data center. It's a power plant with a data center attached to it." Verbal Corvo: bit.ly/4oAHY61
@fractracker.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hilliard residents protest massive C02-emitting Amazon and @aepnews.bsky.social data center near homes and schools.
City appeal: "It's not a data center. It's a power plant with a data center attached to it." Verbal Corvo: bit.ly/4oAHY61
@fractracker.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social
City appeal: "It's not a data center. It's a power plant with a data center attached to it." Verbal Corvo: bit.ly/4oAHY61
@fractracker.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social
Know someone who wants to help shape how FracTracker shares data and stories that advance public health and environmental justice? Learn more and apply today at www.fractracker.org/careers 🌐
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Know someone who wants to help shape how FracTracker shares data and stories that advance public health and environmental justice? Learn more and apply today at www.fractracker.org/careers 🌐
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is unproven technology, yet it may be coming to Ohio.
Underground pipelines filled with carbon dioxide can leak or break, poisoning people above ground. Remember Satartia, Miss.
Learn more at this Nov. 6 webinar.
@fractracker.bsky.social @spj-posts.bsky.social
Underground pipelines filled with carbon dioxide can leak or break, poisoning people above ground. Remember Satartia, Miss.
Learn more at this Nov. 6 webinar.
@fractracker.bsky.social @spj-posts.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is unproven technology, yet it may be coming to Ohio.
Underground pipelines filled with carbon dioxide can leak or break, poisoning people above ground. Remember Satartia, Miss.
Learn more at this Nov. 6 webinar.
@fractracker.bsky.social @spj-posts.bsky.social
Underground pipelines filled with carbon dioxide can leak or break, poisoning people above ground. Remember Satartia, Miss.
Learn more at this Nov. 6 webinar.
@fractracker.bsky.social @spj-posts.bsky.social
Love the Community Sentinels! Shamyra Lavigne-Davey (rep Sharon Lavigne) @risestjames.bsky.social
Melissa Troutman @wildearthguardians.bsky.social
Sarah Martik @coalfldjustice.bsky.social
Allie Rosenbluth @oilchange.bsky.social
Cesar Aguirre @ccejn
Jo Banner @descendantsproject.bsky.social
Melissa Troutman @wildearthguardians.bsky.social
Sarah Martik @coalfldjustice.bsky.social
Allie Rosenbluth @oilchange.bsky.social
Cesar Aguirre @ccejn
Jo Banner @descendantsproject.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Love the Community Sentinels! Shamyra Lavigne-Davey (rep Sharon Lavigne) @risestjames.bsky.social
Melissa Troutman @wildearthguardians.bsky.social
Sarah Martik @coalfldjustice.bsky.social
Allie Rosenbluth @oilchange.bsky.social
Cesar Aguirre @ccejn
Jo Banner @descendantsproject.bsky.social
Melissa Troutman @wildearthguardians.bsky.social
Sarah Martik @coalfldjustice.bsky.social
Allie Rosenbluth @oilchange.bsky.social
Cesar Aguirre @ccejn
Jo Banner @descendantsproject.bsky.social
After hosting this event annually for the past decade, we’ve decided to shift the Sentinel Awards to an every-other-year schedule. This means we will not be hosting the awards in 2025 — but don’t worry, exciting plans are already underway for November 2026!
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
After hosting this event annually for the past decade, we’ve decided to shift the Sentinel Awards to an every-other-year schedule. This means we will not be hosting the awards in 2025 — but don’t worry, exciting plans are already underway for November 2026!
PA communities face health & environmental harms from fracking near homes, schools & waterways. Watch Protective Buffers PA’s webinar to hear residents’ stories & learn about our push for stronger statewide setback laws & how you can help.
network.halttheharm.net/c/recording-...
network.halttheharm.net/c/recording-...
Safeguard Our Backyards: Join the Campaign for Health-Based Protective Buffers from Fracking | Halt the Harm Network
The Marcellus shale industry has been allowed to drill dangerously close to Pennsylvania homes, schools, hospitals, and waterways for years, and dozens of scientific studies now confirm this has harm...
network.halttheharm.net
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
PA communities face health & environmental harms from fracking near homes, schools & waterways. Watch Protective Buffers PA’s webinar to hear residents’ stories & learn about our push for stronger statewide setback laws & how you can help.
network.halttheharm.net/c/recording-...
network.halttheharm.net/c/recording-...
Join us in online or in person at Patagonia Pittsburgh and Dublin stores. Excited to speak alongside @protectpt.bsky.social and Stop Shannon LNG
✊🏼 RSVP at hybridfossilgasevent.splashthat.com
✊🏼 RSVP at hybridfossilgasevent.splashthat.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Join us in online or in person at Patagonia Pittsburgh and Dublin stores. Excited to speak alongside @protectpt.bsky.social and Stop Shannon LNG
✊🏼 RSVP at hybridfossilgasevent.splashthat.com
✊🏼 RSVP at hybridfossilgasevent.splashthat.com
💡As James Hiatt writes in The Washington Post, suing polluters isn’t an “attack on industry.” It’s the only path left for justice when companies put profits over people.
👉 www.washingtonpost.com/.../trump-dc...
👉 www.washingtonpost.com/.../trump-dc...
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
💡As James Hiatt writes in The Washington Post, suing polluters isn’t an “attack on industry.” It’s the only path left for justice when companies put profits over people.
👉 www.washingtonpost.com/.../trump-dc...
👉 www.washingtonpost.com/.../trump-dc...
California Resources is acquiring Berry Corp in a $717M all-stock deal, increasing oil production in California & Utah’s Uinta Basin. The merger deepens fossil fuel control in areas already suffering significant environmental & public health impacts from drilling.
Hart Energy - Home
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September 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
California Resources is acquiring Berry Corp in a $717M all-stock deal, increasing oil production in California & Utah’s Uinta Basin. The merger deepens fossil fuel control in areas already suffering significant environmental & public health impacts from drilling.
🚨 FracTracker Alliance opposes the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, citing risks to water, public health, climate, and inadequate review of cumulative impacts.
🔗 Read more: www.fractracker.org/2025/09/comm...
🔗 Read more: www.fractracker.org/2025/09/comm...
Comment Opposing the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP) – Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit Application (SAW-2024-01961) - FracTracker Alliance
FracTracker Alliance opposes the Southeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, citing risks to water, health, climate, and procedural fairness.
www.fractracker.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🚨 FracTracker Alliance opposes the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, citing risks to water, public health, climate, and inadequate review of cumulative impacts.
🔗 Read more: www.fractracker.org/2025/09/comm...
🔗 Read more: www.fractracker.org/2025/09/comm...
Four kids who lived near EQT’s fracking sites in northern WV are suing, claiming the company knowingly exposed them to toxic, cancer-causing, radioactive chemicals—making them sick and forcing them from their homes.
Children sue EQT over illness, distress they say are linked to company’s WV operations
After leaving homes near EQT’s fracking sites in West Virginia, 3 families are seeking damages for harm they say the Pittsburgh firm caused.
www.publicsource.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Four kids who lived near EQT’s fracking sites in northern WV are suing, claiming the company knowingly exposed them to toxic, cancer-causing, radioactive chemicals—making them sick and forcing them from their homes.
‼️Homer City could soon host the largest gas-powered data center campus in the U.S.
Join the PA DEP public hearing on Sept 17, 6–9 PM, 711 Pratt Dr, Indiana, PA to speak out about a proposed 4.5-GW gas plant and its potential air quality, health, and environmental impacts!
Join the PA DEP public hearing on Sept 17, 6–9 PM, 711 Pratt Dr, Indiana, PA to speak out about a proposed 4.5-GW gas plant and its potential air quality, health, and environmental impacts!
September 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
‼️Homer City could soon host the largest gas-powered data center campus in the U.S.
Join the PA DEP public hearing on Sept 17, 6–9 PM, 711 Pratt Dr, Indiana, PA to speak out about a proposed 4.5-GW gas plant and its potential air quality, health, and environmental impacts!
Join the PA DEP public hearing on Sept 17, 6–9 PM, 711 Pratt Dr, Indiana, PA to speak out about a proposed 4.5-GW gas plant and its potential air quality, health, and environmental impacts!
🚨 FracTracker Alliance is calling on PHMSA to keep LNG off rail lines.
PHMSA is considering a regulatory change to allow LNG-by-rail—despite irreducible safety risks to communities & the environment. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
PHMSA is considering a regulatory change to allow LNG-by-rail—despite irreducible safety risks to communities & the environment. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0050: Comment Opposing LNG by Rail Transport - FracTracker Alliance
FracTracker Alliance opposes PHMSA’s proposal to allow LNG-by-rail, citing extreme safety risks, inequitable impacts, and lack of public need.
www.fractracker.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨 FracTracker Alliance is calling on PHMSA to keep LNG off rail lines.
PHMSA is considering a regulatory change to allow LNG-by-rail—despite irreducible safety risks to communities & the environment. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
PHMSA is considering a regulatory change to allow LNG-by-rail—despite irreducible safety risks to communities & the environment. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
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A new study estimates the health cost of the oil and gas industry including lifecycle annual burdens of 91,000 premature deaths to PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone as well as 216,000 incidences of NO2-attributable childhood-onset asthma. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States
Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.
www.science.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A new study estimates the health cost of the oil and gas industry including lifecycle annual burdens of 91,000 premature deaths to PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone as well as 216,000 incidences of NO2-attributable childhood-onset asthma. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...