Steve Harmon’s house shakes when the mining company 100 yards away blasts into what was once farmland. His patio is constantly covered in a thin layer of fine white sand. He and his neighbors also had ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting ...

RED WING, Minn. - Near the muddy banks of Hay Creek, a popular trout stream, are significant bluffs covered with a hardwood forest of oak, bass wood and black cherry trees. Underneath the forested ...

Oil and natural gas operators use hydraulic fracturing to split open underground formations to allow oil and gas to flow to the surface. But the practice, often known as fracking, has also brought ...

The continued development and application of advanced technologies has led to significant improvements in the way we find and produce oil and natural gas, and this in turn has enabled us to chart a ...

MADISON (AP) — Some energy producers are still willing to pay more for Wisconsin’s high-quality fracking sand despite increasing competition from Texas producers. Mining industry publications estimate ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," as it is known, has been a hot-button issue in the 2024 race for the White House between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as the two ...