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A new website is drawing attention to the fracking issue in a way that has never been done before. FrackFeed.com was recently launched by North Texans for Natural Gas, a grassroots program of over 110,000 people who support drilling in the Barnett Shale. It’s about educating the public on fracking, as well as exposing how anti-fracking groups have denied science in their campaign to ban American energy development.

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, June 24, 2015 DENVER — After scoring a statewide ban last year on hydraulic fracturing in New York, anti-fracking activists talked excitedly about following up in a major fossil fuel-producing state — Colorado, maybe, or California. Instead, the next state to prohibit the use of fracking in oil and gas extraction — on a temporary basis — was Maryland, which, like New York, is a deep-blue state with no hydraulic fracturing activity. Critics quickly dismissed the two-year moratorium as purely symbolic.

Last week, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited draft report on the effects associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on drinking water, completing the most extensive scientific review of published data to date. How much do you know about the study? Play our "EPA Water Study Quiz" to find out!

The EPA recently published an extensive, years-long study about the impact of fracking on America's water supply. Much to the dismay of fracktivists, the study found that there is no evidence that there is any widespread impact on drinking water. Here's 11 Things Fracktivists Don’t Want You to Know about the EPA Report on Fracking and Groundwater:

This past week, North Texans for Natural Gas launched FrackFeed - a website that seeks to entertain and educate visitors from around the country about fracking and natural gas. Here's what the media has been saying:

A handful of cities across the country have implemented illegal fracking bans, forcing local taxpayers to foot the bill to defend the bans in court. But which fracking ban has been the most expensive? The one in Denton, Texas, which has cost taxpayers over $1 million.

New law on drilling actually allows for more local control | By: Ed Ireland, Executive Director of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | June 3, 2015 To hear it from a vocal minority of drilling opponents, House Bill 40, the recently enacted law that clarifies energy regulation in Texas, is “big government” taking away “local control” from cities.

On June 4, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a major draft report on fracking that assessed whether the process posed a risk to groundwater.

Denton needs to respect Texas law | By: Leigh Thompson, Dallas Morning News | May 27, 2015 The Texas Legislature has spoken: Fracking bans are out. Where does this leave Denton, the city with the most aggressive antifracking regulation, and other Texas municipalities utilizing or exploring oppressive oil and gas regulations?

The mayor of a North Texas city that banned fracking says a key part of the city’s drilling ordinance was not based on health or safety concerns, contradicting what he and other local officials have used to defend those rules. The comments also raise additional questions about the legality of the ordinance under state law.

Letter to the Editor: Taxpayers Deserve to Know Cost | By: Denton Resident Phillip Sweet, Denton Record-Chronicle | May 20, 2015 The 2015 Notice of Appraised Value from the Denton Central Appraisal District just arrived. Our house appraised tax keeps increasing year after year. How can Denton keep expenses under control? How much is Denton’s fracking ban actually costing us?

Letter to the Editor: Voice of Reason | Texas Royalty Council President Tricia Davis, Denton Record-Chronicle | May 19, 2015 When elected officials make policy decisions after careful consideration and sound reasoning, it’s discouraging to see them harshly criticized with misinformed and unfair attacks, like we’re seeing happen with Rep. Myra Crownover.

Denton’s ban on hydraulic fracturing has been in the news quite a bit recently, but there’s an issue that has been lost in much of that debate: taxes.

Scientists: Fracking Is Not Causing Earthquakes | By: Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller News Foundation | May 6, 2015 Earthquakes are on the rise in Oklahoma and Texas, and media reports have made sure to link hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations to quakes rocking parts of the country. But connecting fracking to earthquakes is frustrating scientists working on the issue. “We’re not talking at all about fracking,” Dr. Matthew Hornback, a scientist at Southern Methodist University who recently released a study on quakes in North Texas, told Congress Tuesday.

Scientists from Southern Methodist University (SMU) say it’s “driving us crazy” that the press wrongly blames fracking for North Texas earthquakes. SMU’s research has focused on wastewater disposal. “We’re not talking at all about fracking,” they added.

It’s no secret that there’s a political campaign underway in the United States to ban fracking, a technology that has unlocked enormous supplies of natural gas. Critics claim that we can stop using natural gas, and instead rely on wind and solar. There are big problems with that, but it also ignores a pretty important fact: there are tons of products in our everyday lives that are made from natural gas. As it turns out, natural gas is an important building block for manufacturing, allowing the creation of everything from plastics to medicine. Here are 25 of those products.

Eugene, a community leader in North Texas, has a compelling story about why he supports and prefers natural gas: "Besides the fact that it's a clean product, I believe that the future of natural gas is tremendous."

By Christopher Martin Carbon dioxide emissions will slip to the lowest since 1994 as U.S. utilities shift away from coal in favor of solar, wind and natural gas.

Today, scientists from Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas, and the U.S. Geological Survey released a new research paper in the journal Nature Communications, entitled “Causal factors for seismicity near Azle, Texas.” Through a process of elimination, the researchers concluded that “brine production combined with wastewater disposal represent the most likely cause of recent seismicity near Azle.” However, several issues in the paper raise questions about its conclusion, including potentially major flaws related to subsurface pressure.

In recent years, opponents of natural gas production in North Texas have argued that drilling reduces home values. Frack Free Denton claimed “fracking has been shown to decrease nearby residential property values” as part of its number one reason to ban fracking. Mansfield Gas Well Awareness states on its home page that drilling in Mansfield “is a threat” to property values. Earthworks and the activist website EcoWatch have also said fracking decreases property values.

The anti-energy group Environment Texas (ET) recently unveiled a letter to Governor Greg Abbott, Senator Troy Fraser and Representative Drew Darby, which makes a series of misleading and erroneous claims about two bills under consideration in Austin - HB 40 and SB 1165 - and the facts surrounding hydraulic fracturing (fracking).