EcoWatch: Residents of Minisink, NY, go face to face with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2012.
As advances in technology open vast territories of the U.S. to new forms of extreme fossil fuel extraction, more and more American communities find themselves battling not only private oil and gas companies but also their own government to protect their homes, health and way of life.
The oil and gas rush requires a massive infrastructure network to get those fuels to markets, domestic as well as foreign,...