LOS ANGELES -- There has been a lot of controversy about the oil-extraction procedure known as "fracking." Now more questions are being raised about how much water is used for fracking, and whether it ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission has put over 12,000 acres of a remote wildlife area, called Egypt Valley, out ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting ...

Fracking — the practice of drilling deep into the earth and cracking through layers of tight shale to extract natural gas — was in the spotlight during last night’s debate between Vice President ...

The natural gas boom in North Texas is not only producing energy and jobs, it’s also sparking action in the state legislature regarding hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the energy-rich Barnett ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fracking pumpjacks. These pieces of equipment are crucial to oil field and fracking operations. (Getty Images.) Vice President ...

In any battle over fracking, transnational corporations would be well-positioned to overpower local resistance.

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 ...

A state regulator has adopted a rule banning the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals,” in the fracking process. But advocates pushing for more ...

Trump is hitting Harris with TV ads about her fracking flip. But the drilling process might not be as important to voters as pundits suggest. If it’s true that support for a fracking ban is surefire ...