The latest battle in the ongoing public relations war over hydraulic fracturing is being waged in Ohio, where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a campaign extolling the economic virtues of oil and natural gas drilling in a state that is undergoing a shale gas boom. Go to story #1

Blistering heat draped across much of the eastern United States has forced a regional planning authority in Pennsylvania to suspend water withdrawals by natural gas producers. The Susquehanna River Basin Commission earlier this week said it had suspended 64 permits to withdraw water from streams and other sources in the 27,000-square-mile watershedf Go to story #2