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 ...

A new study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found fracking to be more harmful than initially believed. The organization concluded the oil and gas extraction process has been ...

Fracking’s Forever Problem: Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the ...

While students work in the lab, geologist Jerry Bartz, a lab coordinator at a North Texas community college, sits at a messy desk in the back office, surrounded by piles of papers, reading reports on ...

Chemicals found in wells near the site of a 2022 incident in Freeport Township indicate a link to nearby fracking activity, according to a recent report by researchers from the University of ...

It’s been 12 years since then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned fracking in New York — a dozen years in which Southern Tier residents ...

One of the Newsom administration’s signature climate achievements came undone this week with a tentative ruling that the state acted improperly when it carried out a two-phase ban on the oil well ...

The biggest threat to public health from fracking is water pollution, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. But in 2005, Congress exempted fracking by oil and natural gas producers from ...

Shale oil and gas has turned the country into an energy powerhouse, but communities living near the field are counting the cost ...

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 ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...