Dear EarthTalk: I hear there's a greener form of fracking for natural gas and oil that uses carbon dioxide instead of water to access underground reserves. Is this really better for the environment? — ...

Fracking: some call it one of the greatest innovations of the last fifty years. Others insist it's an environmental disaster.

Work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa., March 12, 2020. Five years after a landmark Pennsylvania grand jury report slammed the Department of Environmental Protection for ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. One morning in late September, on the shores of Lake Erie, Toby Rice took the stage before a room of fracking executives and gas industry types working ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series examining where presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on the biggest issues. Today’s segment focuses on fracking. With the ...

During Tuesday night's heated presidential debate, Kamala Harris's stance on fracking was called into question by Donald Trump. Trump alleged that Harris would ban the practice if she won the election ...

North Yorkshire anti-fracking campaigners have called on the government to ban new onshore oil and gas extraction following the commitment from the Liberal Democrats.

There seems to be a fair amount of discussion about fracking in the news. It has become a wedge issue in the commonwealth. It seems to me the issue is not “for” or “against” fracking. It is for or ...

Chemicals found in wells near the site of a 2022 incident in Freeport Township indicate a link to nearby fracking activity, ...