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 ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission has put over 12,000 acres of a remote wildlife area, called Egypt Valley, out ...

Geologists say it is not yet clear on if this watered down version will cause the earth to move. Proppant squeeze still ...

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 ...

Environmental groups worry fracking in Mexico would have serious environmental consequences, as the president says her country will work toward “sustainable” methods.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission on Monday delayed decisions on whether to accept bids from oil and gas companies to drill on three areas of public land in Eastern Ohio ...

As a child growing up along the banks of Colombia’s Magdalena River, Yuvelis Morales Blanco learned to read the water. “Dark spots on the river meant that we were not going to eat,” she recalled. One ...

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It appears that Mexico is finally open to an idea that changed Arkansas and the rest of the energy world more than a decade ago, when the Barnett Shale natural gas play began operations in Texas, soon ...

A state regulator has adopted a rule banning the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals,” in the fracking process. But advocates pushing for more ...