The aquifer supplying Springfield’s water is shielded from any possible effects of fracking in northeast Ohio’s Utica shale, according to a local expert. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is used to collect natural gas from underground to make electricity, heat buildings or supply stoves for cooking. Fracking operations use high-pressure water to ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Theenvironmental effects of shale gas are varied—wide ranges of ...

Researchers met with City of Dawson Creek council on Feb. 9 to discuss the potential harms and health outcomes of oil and gas activity in northeast B.C. Dr. Ulrike Meyer, a Dawson Creek, B.C. family ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Community leader and activist Ranjana Bhandari shared her concerns about a proposal for more fracking in East Arlington. “The pollution from fracking, the fumes, the noise, the ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...