Since 2008, the United States has become the world’s leading producer of oil and gas, largely due to advances in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The process, which involves using high-pressure ...

New research confirms fracking causes slow, small earthquakes or tremors, whose origin was previously a mystery to scientists. The tremors are produced by the same processes that could create large, ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

New research compares the health impacts of fracking on either side of the New York and Pennsylvania border and found that people who live in areas with a high concentration of fracking wells are at ...

ARLINGTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - Research from a group of students and professors at the University of Texas at Arlington is leading to new technologies that will make the use of water during fracking ...

A U.S. company that is seeking to drill for natural gas in New Brunswick is facing a class-action lawsuit in Arkansas over its use of the controversial hydro-fracking procedure. Southwestern Energy ...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is on record as saying that hydraulic fracturing methods to extract oil and gas “can be done safely,” but he’s not overly impressed with varying state rules ...

Ohio's Oil and Gas Management Commission approved bids to allow fracking on nearly 15,000 acres of public land. The approved ...

Ice water swimmer and environmentalist Lewis Pugh has been accused at a public meeting of not allowing a debate on the potential job creation power of allowing hydraulic fracturing in the Karoo. Pugh ...

A natural gas drilling rig in Wyoming. The EPA says that fracking may have resulted in groundwater contamination in that state.National Geographic / Getty Images News If you report on the ...

The state's environmental commissioner Tuesday indicated an "extremely limited" number of permits for hydraulic fracturing could be issued before the end of the upcoming fiscal year. But Joe Martens, ...

A ban on spreading hydraulic fracturing waste on roadways and using county roads to ship “fracking” wastes into the county for treatment is expected to be come up for vote Dec. 12 by the Erie County ...