Fracking is a drilling technique for extracting natural gas or oil Economic importance, health concerns make it a topic of debate There is passionate support for and opposition to natural gas ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When John ...

The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste In Murphy’s Final Weeks, NJ Climate ...

FILE - Work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa., March 12, 2020. Facing the need to win Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris has sworn off any prior assertion that she ...

A recent News editorial, “We need much better data on fracking before setting off on a drilling boom,” suggested allowing one or two counties to become science experiments for fracking. Any fracking ...

Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of ...

New research suggests fracking waste could contain huge amounts of lithium, a main ingredient in batteries. But fracking will never be part of a clean energy future. New research suggests fracking ...

Oil and gas companies have been pressuring Ohio landowners to allow hydraulic fracturing on their property and are turning to state law to force compliance when there is resistance, according to a ...

Hydraulic fracturing, popularized about a decade ago, has helped unlock hydrocarbons trapped in tight shale formations, spawning a vast web of rigs, wells and energy infrastructure across the country.

(WHTM)– People who tuned into last week’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump probably recall the heated exchange about fracking. The brief exchange probably ...

In recent weeks, North Texans felt the aftershock of several earthquakes originating near Hermleigh in Scurry County, about 250 miles west of downtown Dallas. The cause of these quakes has yet to be ...

The record U.S. oil and gas boom may lie on a bedrock of aggressive sales and legal “compulsion,” a new study has found. Many Ohio landowners who ended up with fracked wells on their properties were ...