Five years after a Pennsylvania grand jury made eight recommendations to protect public health and the environment from fracking, the state has largely failed to follow through, five environmental ...

Pennsylvania environmental regulators have found a likely correlation between a natural gas company’s fracking operation and a series of tiny earthquakes in western Pennsylvania last year. The quakes ...

Flare from a well pad near a home in Southwestern Pennsylvania. A bill in the Pennsylvania Senate would withdraw funding from communities that try to restrict shale gas drilling within their borders.

Increased natural gas prices triggered a jump in fracking activity in Pennsylvania in the second quarter of 2025, a new analysis by the Independent Fiscal Office shows. The number of new wells fracked ...

File - Work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa., March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and ...

In 2013, when the Appalachian fracking rush was still in its early days, then President Barack Obama extolled its benefits in his State of the Union address. Not only had natural gas already helped to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A possible natural gas well that would be used to power a data center in Lee County near the Chatham County line off US 421 ...

With Trump winning the election, many things about U.S. energy policy will change, and most likely fracking rates will increase. Fracking is a process that involves injecting high-pressure fluid, ...