There is a lot of controversy surrounding the practice of fracking, but this is what it is and how it can save money.

By Maxwell Radwin Earlier this month, state-owned oil company Petroecuador announced a new project involving “hydraulic ...

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

A public meeting will be held this week to get public input about a controversial fracking well that oil and gas company Civitas wants to build near the Aurora Reservoir, and neighbors are once again ...

Texas moved Monday to ban its own cities from imposing prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing and other potentially environmentally harmful oil and natural gas drilling activities within their ...

When Jill Hunkler moved back to her home state of Ohio in 2010, she decided to settle down near Barnesville and live off the land. A single mother, she bought a home in the Ohio River Valley “because ...

States across the U.S. are exploring whether abandoned oil and gas wells can be repurposed for geothermal energy production, ...

President Donald Trump’s push to expand domestic oil and gas production may bring new drilling to California’s Central Coast — including parts of Santa Barbara County. More than 400,000 acres of ...

Fracturing shale formations to force out oil and gas probably doesn't cause earthquakes, but another industry practice might. That's the opinion of scientists who participated in a yearlong study of ...

300,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the test wells, fracked to reach oil once considered too expensive to extract. By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media/InsideClimate News Sign up here.