Five years ago, The Heartland Institute set out to correct some misperceptions about the hydraulic fracturing process (commonly known as “fracking”) that had gained traction in the opinions of a ...

From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas wells have been fracked. Fracking, short for ...

Millions of gallons of radioactive fracking brine pumped underground at high pressure are migrating toward drinking water ...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” is a process of extracting natural gas and oil from several miles deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Over the past decade, fracking has ...

Ohio officials approved fracking bids for thousands of acres of public land amid loud protests.

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A highly contentious meeting where personal insults were hurled resulted in a huge win for the fracking industry in Ohio – and an ...