The Stormont Executive has approved legislation that will permanently end petroleum exploration and licensing, including ...

Freeing oil and gas deposits from its shale, tight sand and coalbed methane coverings was first done with explosives in 1865. Using pressurized fluid and ...

Allegheny County Council on Tuesday voted to override a veto on a bill that bans new fracking leases on county parkland. The override marked the first time in Allegheny County Executive Rich ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly 3 billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater have been injected underground in southeastern Ohio — ...

Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling — including fracking — on millions of acres in Central California are on hold following a settlement between state and federal officials.

The towns of Dryden, in Tompkins County, and Middlefield, in Otsego County, changed their zoning laws to ban fracking in recent years after energy companies started acquiring local leases to drill.

The government has told North Yorkshire Council it is keeping regulation on lower-volume fracking “under review”.

US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris defended her changing stance on hydraulic fracturing in the only scheduled debate with former president Donald Trump on Tuesday, ...

HALIFAX — A former university president who oversaw the report that led to a decade-long ban on fracking in Nova Scotia is questioning the government’s claims that new natural-gas development will ...