WASHINGTON (AP) — The drilling procedure called fracking didn’t cause much-publicized cases of tainted groundwater in areas of Pennsylvania and Texas, a new study finds. Instead, it blames the ...

By Maxwell Radwin Earlier this month, state-owned oil company Petroecuador announced a new project involving “hydraulic fracturing” in an oil block in the Ecuadorian Amazon. As a result, some ...

My water well went dry a week or two ago and I was transporting town water to put in it until the well company could come out to clean the well out. The Well company that came out to clean my well ...

The use of hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas development projects is a controversial issue, with several states banning the process, such a California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New ...

NISKAYUNA, New York, April 7 (Reuters) - Carbon dioxide, used for years to force crude oil out of old wells, likely will not replace water in fracking anytime soon because of technical challenges and ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which oil and natural gas are extracted from underground rock formations. Fracking provides many benefits but has some costly side effects. Fracking ...

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 ...

300,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the test wells, fracked to reach oil once considered too expensive to extract. By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media/InsideClimate News Sign up here.