Friday August 27th marks the start of a six-city Gasland tour across Pennsylvania and New York. Rooftop Films, The Fledgling Fund, and International WOW Company present free screenings of Josh Fox's new movie in some of the areas most seriously affected by this type of drilling, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and Callicoon, Syracuse, and New York City in New York. Join Frack Action and local activists on this tour across the heart of gasland! read more »

The New York State Senate took a bold step late last night to ensure that risky new gas drilling techniques will not move forward until the state has properly evaluated environmental and public health threats.

In light of many incidents of drinking water contamination, dead livestock, and catastrophic explosions, Senators in both parties voted to instate an 11-month moratorium on the controversial practice of drilling known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Many had considered the bill all but dead, but the unrelenting work of Frack Action and other groups successfully built a bipartisan coalition in the Senate and mobilized citizen action across the state. read more »