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

"The report points out there are numerous ways well operators can avoid that responsibility, and it suggests IDNR has frequently been unable or unwilling to take strong enforcement action." ...

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.

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ill. — 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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of similarly abandoned oil and gas wells are strewn across southern Illinois, remnants of a distant past when the state was one of the nation’s top oil producers. They litter farm fields, ...

Oil and gas drilling is now allowed on more Ohio wildlife areas. The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved several wildlife areas and other public lands for hydraulic fracturing. Also ...

Tinder-dry and golden in the summer, these hills on the way to the summit of California’s Mt. Diablo turn resplendent green in the spring during the wet season. Preserved areas on and around the ...