Freeing oil and gas deposits from its shale, tight sand and coalbed methane coverings was first done with explosives in 1865. Using pressurized fluid and ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Houston-based oil and gas company has drilled the first fracking well beneath Ohio’s preserved park and wildlife lands. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz told ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. To many, it’s still a surprise just how big a modern frac ...

A case argued Tuesday before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court could test the reach of local efforts to challenge natural gas fracking. Concerned Residents of West Deer (CROWD), a local advocacy group, ...

LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - It is time to stop demonising hydraulic fracturing. Oil and gas production is a messy, dirty business that produces all sorts of harmful waste. But the chemicals used in ...

Chemicals found in wells near the site of a 2022 incident in Freeport Township indicate a link to nearby fracking activity, according to a recent report by researchers from the University of ...

The Ohio Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management confirmed an explosion occurred just before 6 p.m. Thursday at a fracking well pad near Salt Fork State Park in Guernsey County. The fire at the ...

That play on a line in the 1967 film “The Graduate” may well sum up Donald Trump’s line of attack on energy policy in Tuesday’s debate with Kamala Harris. The presidential contest is shining a renewed ...