Last Sunday, Opinion asked Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas — a statewide, citizen-funded advocate for clean air, clean water and open spaces — about fracking and water. We asked the same ...

Southern Ohio discovers toxic fracking wastewater migrating from deep injection wells, contaminating local groundwater. Fragmented state-level regulations and undisclosed fracking fluid compositions ...

Last Wednesday, the natural gas company CNX Resources released the initial results from its environmental monitoring collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a ...

The development of new technologies to drill horizontally is what has made hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, attractive to explore for, and produce from, oil and gas deposits. The technology has ...

VIENNA, Ill. (AP) — Officials in southern Illinois’ Johnson County will soon learn where their constituents stand on fracking, as voters will signal whether the county should resist efforts to use the ...

On Feb. 3, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, testified before the New York State Legislature and mentioned his ongoing review of the health impacts of hydraulic fracturing or ...

Fracking – a controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil from underground – is a deeply divisive topic. Some say it damages property and causes pollution, while others contend it is a safe, ...

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told reporters Thursday morning that the process of natural gas extraction called fracking was safe and should be used, provided it was properly regulated. “I still have ...

John Hanger, who just departed with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell as his Secretary of Environmental Protection, recently gave an exit interview to the anti-natural gas, Herb & Marion Sandler-fueled ...