abstract:Michael Shellenberger is an American author, environmental policy expert, and the president of The Breakthrough Institute. He was named a Time magazine Heroes of the Environment (2008),Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine, September 24, 2008 winner of the 2008 Green Book Award,Stevens' Center for Science Writing, January 8, 2008 co-editor of Love Your Monsters (2011) and co-author of Break Through (Houghton Mifflin 2007) and The Death of Environmentalism (2004).
The new EPA data is "kind of an earthquake" in the debate over drilling, said MichaelShellenberger, the president of the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental group based in Oakland, Calif.
"As moderates in the gas industry and in the environmental community work together more in coming years to improve drilling practices, I think you will see the extremes in both camps become increasingly marginal and isolated, and I think that's a good thing, " environmentalist MichaelShellenberger wrote in an email.