Healthier Energy Choices

As the United States steadily increases our development of tight oil and shale gas, we face serious risks from hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” which pollutes the air and water around communities where there is unconventional drilling for natural gas and oil.


Further, other chemicals involved throughout the cycle of fracking, from construction of fracking sites through transport of the extracted fuels to disposal of the waste water and more can lead to toxic health threats to the air and water for communities near fracking sites. The social disruption that often follows the introduction of fracking can also lead to health problems throughout fracking communities.

The oil and gas industry is the only industry in the U.S. that is allowed to “inject hazardous materials-unchecked” directly into or adjacent to underground drinking water supplies. Despite the risks, fracking has been largely exempted from federal environmental laws.

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