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As the nation’s natural gas production booms, Democrats eyeing the White House may find themselves in a fracking fight. As the nation’s natural gas production booms, Democrats eyeing the White House ...

Last Wednesday, the natural gas company CNX Resources released the initial results from its environmental monitoring collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Kristina Marusic, a journalist for Environmental Health News ...

Last Sunday, Opinion asked Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas — a statewide, citizen-funded advocate for clean air, clean water and open spaces — about fracking and water. We asked the same ...

The development of new technologies to drill horizontally is what has made hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, attractive to explore for, and produce from, oil and gas deposits. The technology has ...

Plans for a "mini fracking" site in Burniston near Scarborough have been rejected by North Yorkshire Council following local outcry.

Fracking – a controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil from underground – is a deeply divisive topic. Some say it damages property and causes pollution, while others contend it is a safe, ...

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told reporters Thursday morning that the process of natural gas extraction called fracking was safe and should be used, provided it was properly regulated. “I still have ...