More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

On Oct. 2, 2024, a geyser erupted in Toyah, a town in west Texas 50 miles from the New Mexico border. This was not a case of water miraculously appearing in the desert, a deliverance from the area’s ...

AfriForum warns that if the government gives the green light to fracking, communities will pay the price. The civil rights ...

While hydraulic fracking has been around since the late 1940s, it initially didn't prove enormously profitable in extracting gas and oil from rock formations known as shale. That changed in 1997 when ...

WASHINGTON — A proposal to restrict natural gas production in a Virginia national forest has become a flashpoint in the debate over whether drilling endangers water — in this case, water used by ...

Fears that the Trump administration is looking for ways to lift a longstanding ban on fracking for natural gas in the densely populated Delaware River Basin—which includes part of Pennsylvania—have ...

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, long dominated by the U.S. shale industry, is rapidly becoming a global export as countries seek to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves to meet rising energy demand, ...

An environmental watchdog has recommended a Kimberley fracking proposal but conservationists say the decision is flawed and ...