California halts injection of fracking waste to prevent contaminating aquifers
Propublica: California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's...
Propublica: California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's...
The leader of State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources says the group's efforts have already weakened Putin’s hand and significantly reduced Ukraine's...
Storing carbon dioxide in the same shale formations that produce natural gas may be an effective way to sequester carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuel-burning power...
President Obama’s pick to run the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, under fire from Republicans, sought to reassure lawmakers Tuesday that he’s a big fan of natural gas.
Emissions of methane from natural gas well sites across the United States have fallen in a key part of the drilling process, despite the boom in natural gas development,...
An EPA staff report suggests methane from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminated wells near Dimock, Pa., but the agency says the water's safe to drink.
PITTSBURGH — A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate...
NEW YORK, July 11 (Reuters) - Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil...
The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it won’t finalize a draft 2011 study that concluded water pollution in a Wyoming region might stem from hydraulic...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois came a giant step closer to approving the nation's strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling on Friday, as...
WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled its latest proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, seeking to allay...
The rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing could put pressure on already-stressed water resources from the suburbs of Fort Worth to western Colorado, according to a new...
A federal reassessment found the region holds twice as much shale oil and three times the resourc as previously estimated.
Draft federal rules on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, will be released in a matter of “weeks, not months,” Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Tuesday.
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production,...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Celebrities of music, stage and screen who are gaining attention for the effort to block New York from approving a method of gas drilling may soon be...
CHICAGO (AP) -- After years of clashing over the drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," the oil industry and environmentalists have...
Big stars and political controversy didn’t translate into a big haul for the film, which explores environmental concerns over "fracking."
The U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday that North Dakota experienced the nation’s greatest population growth this year, with the domestic oil-and-gas boom a likely reason...
Republicans are stepping up political pressure on the White House to back off regulations that will impose new controls on the controversial oil-and-gas development method...