The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — and no pair of bills demonstrates this more thoroughly than the proposed Ohio Senate Bill 219 and Ohio Senate Bill 294.

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 ...

New York's fracking ban creates energy poverty for 2.7 million residents while Pennsylvania neighbors profit from natural gas drilling.

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Pro-fracking ads on TV now rival in frequency the ones for expensive pharmaceuticals we’ll never need. My gut reaction is that anyone who needs to advertise that heavily — or can afford to — must be ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Tuesday, readers! President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order with the aim of bringing the domestic coal industry back to life. In today ...

Councillors have been urged to reiterate their opposition to fracking in the Wakefield district.