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/
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.
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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...
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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.
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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/...
🚨 Nearly a year after the BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, GA, residents still seek answers. Independent tester Scott Smith found toxic chemicals—dioxins & PAHs—but new records suggest the EPA monitored his work and downplayed the results. www.gpb.org/news/2025/08...
Records reveal EPA surveillance of whistleblower who tested samples near BioLab fire
In an exclusive interview with GPB's Pamela Kirkland, environmental whistleblower Scott Smith discusses documents about suspected surveillance while he gathered soil and water samples after the BioLab...
www.gpb.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🚨 Nearly a year after the BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, GA, residents still seek answers. Independent tester Scott Smith found toxic chemicals—dioxins & PAHs—but new records suggest the EPA monitored his work and downplayed the results. www.gpb.org/news/2025/08...
Explore FracTracker’s new data portals! Access nearly 5 million oil and gas well records and 30+ datasets on refineries, pipelines, power plants, and more—free and open to everyone.
Visit www.fractracker.org/data for more + watch the webinar recording to learn more: youtu.be/uwmVxflzlKA?...
Visit www.fractracker.org/data for more + watch the webinar recording to learn more: youtu.be/uwmVxflzlKA?...
September 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Explore FracTracker’s new data portals! Access nearly 5 million oil and gas well records and 30+ datasets on refineries, pipelines, power plants, and more—free and open to everyone.
Visit www.fractracker.org/data for more + watch the webinar recording to learn more: youtu.be/uwmVxflzlKA?...
Visit www.fractracker.org/data for more + watch the webinar recording to learn more: youtu.be/uwmVxflzlKA?...
🚨 Challenge the AI Power Supply!
The AI Horizons Summit is in Bakery Square this week, promoting Pittsburgh as the next AI & data center hub—powered by gas. Join the rally to demand a future that works for people AND the planet!
📅 Sept 10–11 | Bakery Square + Mellon Park
RSVP👉
The AI Horizons Summit is in Bakery Square this week, promoting Pittsburgh as the next AI & data center hub—powered by gas. Join the rally to demand a future that works for people AND the planet!
📅 Sept 10–11 | Bakery Square + Mellon Park
RSVP👉
September 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚨 Challenge the AI Power Supply!
The AI Horizons Summit is in Bakery Square this week, promoting Pittsburgh as the next AI & data center hub—powered by gas. Join the rally to demand a future that works for people AND the planet!
📅 Sept 10–11 | Bakery Square + Mellon Park
RSVP👉
The AI Horizons Summit is in Bakery Square this week, promoting Pittsburgh as the next AI & data center hub—powered by gas. Join the rally to demand a future that works for people AND the planet!
📅 Sept 10–11 | Bakery Square + Mellon Park
RSVP👉
Freeport Twp, PA declared a Disaster Emergency after a 2022 “frack-out” from EQT’s gas wells contaminated local water supplies. For 3 years, ~100 residents have relied on temporary water tanks with no permanent solution in place.
Freeport Township Declares Disaster Emergency After Residents Impacted By A Gas Related Water Contamination Event Have Been Without Permanent Water Supplies For 3 Years-- We’re Not Blaming Anybody, We Just Want Good, Clean Drinking Water
On June 23, 2025, Freeport Township Supervisors in Greene County took the extraordinary step of declaring a Disaster Emergency after reside...
paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Freeport Twp, PA declared a Disaster Emergency after a 2022 “frack-out” from EQT’s gas wells contaminated local water supplies. For 3 years, ~100 residents have relied on temporary water tanks with no permanent solution in place.
Consumer Watchdog is warning against a last-minute legislative move in Sacramento that could raise energy costs for Californians while benefiting major Prop 50 donors like AES.
Watchdog Urges Against CA End-of-Session Power Grab To Increase Energy Costs And Benefit Prop 50 Donors As “Betrayal of the Electorate”
Consumer Watchdog warned California legislative leaders that ignoring legislative rules and racing through a utility-backed regional electricity deregulation plan in the last ten days of legislative s...
consumerwatchdog.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Consumer Watchdog is warning against a last-minute legislative move in Sacramento that could raise energy costs for Californians while benefiting major Prop 50 donors like AES.
Only 1% of CA drilling permits were used in 3 years, many unused due to health & environmental safeguards.
Companies leaving for looser-regulation states should see this as a warning, not an opportunity: fossil fuel extraction is killing us.
Companies leaving for looser-regulation states should see this as a warning, not an opportunity: fossil fuel extraction is killing us.
Many oil drilling permits going unused
Drilling permits, once plentiful in California, have become a prized commodity within Kern County’s oil industry. Companies that have them can boast to investors, while those without may complain of
www.bakersfield.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Only 1% of CA drilling permits were used in 3 years, many unused due to health & environmental safeguards.
Companies leaving for looser-regulation states should see this as a warning, not an opportunity: fossil fuel extraction is killing us.
Companies leaving for looser-regulation states should see this as a warning, not an opportunity: fossil fuel extraction is killing us.
📢 Big news! FracTracker has launched two new public data portals giving you free access to millions of oil, gas, and petrochemical records. Map infrastructure, analyze community impacts, and take action. 🌎
🔗 Explore the portals → fractracker.org/data
🔗 Explore the portals → fractracker.org/data
August 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
📢 Big news! FracTracker has launched two new public data portals giving you free access to millions of oil, gas, and petrochemical records. Map infrastructure, analyze community impacts, and take action. 🌎
🔗 Explore the portals → fractracker.org/data
🔗 Explore the portals → fractracker.org/data
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The health burden of chemicals used to make clothes may harm children the most! In response to chemicals and plastics in kids’ clothing, we’re calling on The Children’s Place, Carter’s, and H&M to stop making so many clothes out of polyester plastic! Take action today: takeaction.io/ehsc/tell-th...
August 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The health burden of chemicals used to make clothes may harm children the most! In response to chemicals and plastics in kids’ clothing, we’re calling on The Children’s Place, Carter’s, and H&M to stop making so many clothes out of polyester plastic! Take action today: takeaction.io/ehsc/tell-th...
📷 Unveiling FracTracker’s New Data Portals
Oil & Gas Wells Portal → 5M+ standardized well records across the U.S.
Petrochemical Portal → 20+ datasets on facilities.
Join our webinar on Friday, Aug 22 | 12–1 PM EDT to learn more: bit.ly/DataPortalsW...
Oil & Gas Wells Portal → 5M+ standardized well records across the U.S.
Petrochemical Portal → 20+ datasets on facilities.
Join our webinar on Friday, Aug 22 | 12–1 PM EDT to learn more: bit.ly/DataPortalsW...
August 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
📷 Unveiling FracTracker’s New Data Portals
Oil & Gas Wells Portal → 5M+ standardized well records across the U.S.
Petrochemical Portal → 20+ datasets on facilities.
Join our webinar on Friday, Aug 22 | 12–1 PM EDT to learn more: bit.ly/DataPortalsW...
Oil & Gas Wells Portal → 5M+ standardized well records across the U.S.
Petrochemical Portal → 20+ datasets on facilities.
Join our webinar on Friday, Aug 22 | 12–1 PM EDT to learn more: bit.ly/DataPortalsW...
California is closing two major refineries, cutting 17% of its oil capacity. 🚨 Without a just transition, lawmakers risk siding with Big Oil—fast-tracking permits and pausing profit caps—while workers, communities, and climate progress get left behind.
California is sunsetting oil refineries without a plan for what's next
Faced with a looming fuel crunch, some worry California will push aside its efforts to combat climate change to keep gasoline flowing.
grist.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
California is closing two major refineries, cutting 17% of its oil capacity. 🚨 Without a just transition, lawmakers risk siding with Big Oil—fast-tracking permits and pausing profit caps—while workers, communities, and climate progress get left behind.