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Federal Government

• Center for Disease Control, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, link to press release on Leroy Township well blowout

• United States Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, Natural Gas Subcommittee, "Improving the Safety and Environmental Performance of Hydraulic Fracturing" 
  • See Also: Issues--Secretary of Energy Advisory Board

• Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of the Interior
  • homepage for oil and gas leasing on federal lands
• United States Environmental Protection Agency:
  • Ground Water and Drinking Water homepage
    • Drinking Water Treatment: Radionuclides
  • EPA Hydraulic Fracturing homepage

• United States Environmental Protection Agency, Science Advisory Board, Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan

• United States Department of Energy: Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources Program

• United States Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy: Shale Gas Primer

• United States Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory: State Oil and Natural Gas Regulations Designed to Protect Water Resources

• United States Energy Information Administration: Map of U.S. "Shale Gas Plays"

• United States Energy Information Administration: Pennsylvania page, State Energy Database System (SEDS) [includes extensive energy production, consumption and price statistics, 1960-Date]

• United States Energy Information Administration: Map of Natural Gas Compressor Stations

• United States Energy Information Administration: About U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines

• United States Energy Information Administration: Report on Natural Gas Compressor Stations on the Interstate Pipeline Network

• United States Energy Information Administration: Pennsylvania State Energy Profile
  
  
• United States Geological Survey: Fact Sheet 2009-3032 "Water Resources and Natural Gas Production from the Marcellus Shale"
  

• United States Department of the Interior, National Parks Service: Potential Development of the Natural Gas Resources in the Marcellus Shale

• United States National Parks Service: Marcellus Shale Development and the NPS

• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Natural Gas homepage

• United States Bureua of Labor Statistics: Employment in the Oil and Natural Gas Drilling Industry

• United States Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration: homepage

• United States Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration: Pipeline Safety Dangers of Abnormal Snow and Ice Buildup on Gas Distribution Systems

• United States Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration: Database of Pipeline Incidents

• United States Department of Labor, Occupational Health and Safety Administration: Safety & Health Topics, Oil and Gas Well Drilling