Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A highly contentious meeting where personal insults were hurled resulted in a huge win for the fracking industry in Ohio – and an ...

The research adds to other environmental issue relating to hydraulic fracturing. The fracking process involves the injection of millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale. While most ...

“Fracking” is a common name for hydraulic fracturing, which is a process that uses a high-pressure mix of water, chemicals ...

The $6 trillion global energy industry has undergone a lot of changes over its long history, from the first successful oil tanker developed by Sweden in 1878 to the first mobile steel barges for ...

The proposed fracking plan would quadruple production on an aging offshore platform in the Santa Barbara Channel.

SB219 is in line with Ohio lawmakers’ efforts in recent years to jump-start fracking underneath state lands. While then-Gov. John Kasich signed legislation in 2011 authorizing such drilling, Kasich ...

Waste from “fracking” — the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract oil and gas from the ground — may not seem much of a threat in leafy, residential, suburban Ridgefield. But problems from the ...