Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Few technical terms carry as much ambiguity or provoke as much confusion as ...

On a high flank of Battlement Mesa, a summer home sat almost atop a nuclear test site, and fish occupied a former drilling fluid overflow pond. That’s how the U.S. Department of Energy described the ...

Randy Willard dedicated three years to fighting a battle he suspected he would lose. Why it matters: The 63-year-old retired ...

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 ...

Casey has taken several votes to oppose fracking bans and has proposed legislation to impose environmental regulations on the practice. Vice President Kamala Harris said she supported a ban on ...

The vote was met by cheers from many in the audience at the meeting who have been voicing their concerns about fracking, most notably the claim that recent research shows a correlation between ...

FACTS ABOUT THE CANDIDATES CLAIMS. FRACKING IS A MAJOR INDUSTRY IN PENNSYLVANIA, CREATING THOUSANDS OF JOBS, BUT ALSO CAUSING CONCERNS ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH. VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...

Campaigners are calling on the Government to end a “loophole” in the UK’s de facto fracking ban as North Yorkshire Council considers granting planning permission for a new development. The local ...