WASHINGTON (AP) — The drilling procedure called fracking didn’t cause much-publicized cases of tainted groundwater in areas of Pennsylvania and Texas, a new study finds. Instead, it blames the ...

Explore the controversy surrounding the Ohio fracking waste well and its impact on local communities and the environment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The record U.S. oil and gas boom may lie on a bedrock of aggressive sales and legal “compulsion,” a new study has found. Many Ohio ...

Faulty fracking wells are to blame for drinking water contamination in Texas and Pennsylvania, according to new findings from researchers at five universities. “People’s water has been harmed by ...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated who appointed Chavez to the Ohio Senate. Republican Senators picked Chavez for an empty Senate seat in 2023. Injection wells owned ...

A study released Monday by five Duke University scientists found that drinking water wells near gas extraction sites had on average, 17 times higher levels of methane gas than wells that weren’t. Some ...

WASHINGTON -- In Pennsylvania’s gas drilling boom, newer and unconventional wells leak far more often than older and traditional ones, according to a study of state inspection reports for 41,000 wells ...

Fracked wells in West Texas don’t just produce petroleum. Much more than anything else, they spit up salty, mucky water. Typically, companies have discarded that fluid, hundreds of millions of gallons ...

Hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, has been used in the United States for decades — stretching back to the 1940s and 50s. However, the technology boomed in the country during the ...

LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - It is time to stop demonising hydraulic fracturing. Oil and gas production is a messy, dirty business that produces all sorts of harmful waste. But the chemicals used in ...