FracTracker Alliance is a leading source of information related to social and environmental impacts of oil, gas, and petrochemical development in the United States.
The concept originated in 2010, when a group of students and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh began receiving questions about new wells drilled in southwest Pennsylvania. They began researching the health and environmental impacts of the unconventional drilling process and tracking well proposals, leading to the creation of the FracTracker website. Today, FracTracker Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a broader mission to document, examine, and communicate extraction-related concerns across the United States.
FracTracker focuses on public health effects and environmental justice implications on communities from oil and gas development, and the negative impacts from industry activities that deplete natural resources and intensify the climate crisis.
We provide technical expertise and services – like useful, real-world data, scientific analyses, interactive maps, an app for users to document oil and gas concerns, and various visual tools – to help activists, researchers, and the public better understand the environmental, economic, and social problems driven by extractive industries. Our resources assist campaigns seeking solutions through community organizing and regulatory, legislative, or legal efforts to resist the industry’s expansion.