Let's begin with a riddle - what do insecticides, make-up removers, and antiperspirants have in common with hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking', the booming industrial process that removes natural gas ...

The composition of fracking wastewater and the ramifications of recycling or reusing wastewater produced by the fracking process have not been closely scrutinized. In addition to detailing the method ...

MARIETTA, Ohio (WCMH) — The federal government sold oil rights in Ohio’s only national forest for $11 million this month, opening it up to fracking. On Sept. 15, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ...

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a common target for environmental protestors due to its propensity to cause miniature earthquakes and use up vast amounts of water, which eventually ...

New research compares the health impacts of fracking on either side of the New York and Pennsylvania border and found that people who live in areas with a high concentration of fracking wells are at ...

ARLINGTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - Research from a group of students and professors at the University of Texas at Arlington is leading to new technologies that will make the use of water during fracking ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas ...

The natural gas boom in North Texas is not only producing energy and jobs, it’s also sparking action in the state legislature regarding hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the energy-rich Barnett ...

A natural gas drilling rig in Wyoming. The EPA says that fracking may have resulted in groundwater contamination in that state.National Geographic / Getty Images News If you report on the ...

Natural gas is quickly becoming a big chunk of the energy mix, with onshore natural gas extraction techniques like hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” playing a significant role in the shift from ...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is on record as saying that hydraulic fracturing methods to extract oil and gas “can be done safely,” but he’s not overly impressed with varying state rules ...