Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The record U.S. oil and gas boom may lie on a bedrock of aggressive sales and legal “compulsion,” a new study has found. Many Ohio ...

Jill Hunkler is a seventh-generation Ohio Valley resident who says her home was affected by fracking well unitization. automation When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in ...

After fracking, wastewater called “flowback fluids” returns to the surface and is often injected into underground disposal wells (sometimes after being taken to another site), treated and discharged, ...

A new study finds that people who live near areas where hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is conducted are at a higher risk of being hospitalized for a range of illnesses like cancer, neurological ...

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 ...

The discovery has come about after microbiologists, reviewing the genomes of microorganisms living in shale oil and gas wells, came across a new genus. For the time being, at least, the new genus has ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Fracking has burst back on to the national stage in the presidential election contest ...

It’s fair to say that climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge facing our planet, and while much attention is directed towards solutions to the problems it presents, perhaps there’s less ...