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.

A long-overdue rebellion is brewing in southeast Ohio — one directed squarely at the fracking wastewater industry, and at the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly 3 billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater have been injected underground in southeastern Ohio — pumped deep beneath the feet of residents who say they’ve had little say in ...

Fracking can be dated back to the 1860s but became dominant in US oil and gas production in the 2000s. Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is a technique that increases the amount of oil and gas an operator can extract from rock formations. After a well is drilled, a frack crew prepares a ...

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 ...

Kimberley communities are split on a fracking permit for a Texas company, with 8000 appeals lodged to the state government seeking to stop the gas exploration.

CARRIZO SPRINGS — In this South Texas stretch of mesquite trees and cactus, where the land is sometimes too dry to grow crops, the local aquifer is being strained in the search for oil. The reason is ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...