We shouldn’t need to repeat the message, but so often it seems that our legislators are dazzled by promises of unearned wealth and prosperity gushing out of a hole in the ground, they forget that we regulate this sort of thing because it damages us. When an activity is harmless, we usually let it be. When there is a hazard to life, health, or community well-being, then we constrain the offending action. Fracking is harmful it both the short and long term.

A Hot Fracking Mess: The Harms of PA’s Gas Industry

Trump’s pro-fracking policy will boost an industry that threatens us with radioactive pollution. State leaders must stand up for PA.

Keep it in the ground.

Commission got it right: Keep fracking waste out of water supply

In May, the New Mexico Water Quality Commission banned the discharge of fracking wastewater, whether treated or not, off an oil field. The decision — months in the making —

There are a lot of clever people who are well paid to keep chipping away at the regulations and regulators who protect our environment. In my view, they lack conscience and are without honor. But so long as the money if offered, they are relentless in their efforts. Defenders must be vigilant and vocal.

Energy industry at odds over US onshore future

Fracking is propelling the US ahead of Saudi Arabia in output – but has that growth peaked?

Save the planet. Leave it in the ground.

Bloomberg reports that fracking is being adversely affected by tariffs and lower-cost alternative sources. The Bloomberg article is behind a paywall, but the take-away is clear. Fracking isn’t thriving with the glut of gas. Yet energy producers refuse to leave it in the ground.

Fossil energy is expensive to produce even with fracking, and that production cost does not include pricing in the costs and damage from burning it as fuel or making it into plastics.

Fossil-fuel pledge in EU-Trump deal sparks climate fears

The EU is promising colossal new US fossil fuel purchases under its trade deal with President Donald Trump, raising concerns for the bloc’s climate fight — should the mammoth pledges

It’s evil. It’s IBG/YBG. . . the attitude that says, “I’ll be gone and you’ll be gone,” so we needn’t worry about long-term consequences. Enjoy the money, exploit the moment, “Devil take the hindmost. I don’t have to outrun the ravenous bear; just be a bit faster than you.