Since the 1850s, approximately 155,000 wells have been drilled in Illinois, mainly in the southern half of the state.

Electric bills pose a special hazard for the political class because they serve as monthly reminders of policy failure. Public officials scramble to show that they’re “doing something.” New Jersey ...

U.S. shale producers are expanding overseas-from Argentina and Turkey to Australia and the UAE-as domestic shale basins ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY — Bill Rosborough and his son Jon stopped their pickup truck near a 40-acre cornfield and pointed to a white PVC pipe that rose 5 feet from the snow-covered ground on a windy December ...

Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to open roughly 850,000 acres across Central California to new oil drilling and fracking, nearly half of which are public lands, including parks, ...

Social media algorithms keep us all hopelessly engaged. The data these platforms gather on us enable feeds to become fine-tuned to our exact interests, on top of turning our smartphones into glorified ...