Oil and gas is required for many of life's everyday functions. Cars, trains and planes all rely on fuel in order to move people around, leaving many dependent on them. Many also rely on gas and fuel ...

For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

Ted Auch in 2018 when he was the Midwest program director at the time for Fractracker Alliance, surveying fracking impacts in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. A dozen years ago, as fracking was ...

Fracking is a drilling technique for extracting natural gas or oil Economic importance, health concerns make it a topic of debate There is passionate support for and opposition to natural gas ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When John ...

A pair of House Democrats say the state should change the way it taxes the fracking industry, a move that would generate billions of dollars of additional revenue for the state. At the same time, the ...

One in 20 Americans now lives within a mile of a hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” operation, and in addition to the economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages that the oil-drilling ...

As the 2020 presidential election campaign heats up, some candidates have called for a total ban on hydraulic fracturing while other groups support a “keep it in the ground” policy against producing ...

Nearly $2 million will be allocated for a look at environmental results. NEW YORK — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will conduct a massive study to investigate any potential ...

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission announced Tuesday that it will be distributing nearly $279 million in fracking impact fees charged to shale gas drillers in 2022, a bump over $234 million ...

(NewsNation) — In the swing state of Pennsylvania, fracking — extracting oil and natural gas from underground formations — is one of the major campaign issues. Due to its economic importance and ...