Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oil and gas is required for many of life's everyday functions. Cars, trains and planes all rely on fuel in order to move people ...

For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

Ted Auch in 2018 when he was the Midwest program director at the time for Fractracker Alliance, surveying fracking impacts in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. A dozen years ago, as fracking was ...

(NewsNation) — In the swing state of Pennsylvania, fracking — extracting oil and natural gas from underground formations — is one of the major campaign issues. Due to its economic importance and ...

An active drill site on state forest land in Tioga County, Oct. 2019. The Seneca Resources well will tap the Utica Shale formation. With all the talk of fracking in Pennsylvania during this ...

This is the final “Hot Air” in a series about “fracking”—a process used to extract natural gas from shale—and its potential impact on Connecticut. The first column gave a general introduction to ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

As the 2020 presidential election campaign heats up, some candidates have called for a total ban on hydraulic fracturing while other groups support a “keep it in the ground” policy against producing ...

One in 20 Americans now lives within a mile of a hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” operation, and in addition to the economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages that the oil-drilling ...

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission announced Tuesday that it will be distributing nearly $279 million in fracking impact fees charged to shale gas drillers in 2022, a bump over $234 million ...

This program explores contemporary developments and legal issues related to hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and will analyze the impacts of fracking on property valuation and related legal issues.