Harris promised early on in her initial 2019 bid for the presidency to ban the practice if she were elected, and has since recanted that position. Tuesday’s debate moderators questioned the switch. “I ...

Amid skepticism from engineers and environmentalists, landowners and drilling company bet on LPG fracking, which uses propane instead of water. By Anthony Brino, InsideClimate News Sign up here. A ...

Hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, has been used in the United States for decades — stretching back to the 1940s and 50s. However, the technology boomed in the country during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vice President Kamala Harris said she would not ban fracking during Tuesday's presidential debate, but what is it, and when did ...

Lestz eventually developed a fracking process that substitutes propane, or liquid petroleum gas (LPG), for water. Chevron wasn't interested in LPG fracking, Lestz said. But in 2006, a business friend ...

Vice President Kamala Harris was questioned about her stance on fracking during Tuesday’s presidential debate between her and former President Donald Trump. Harris said that she wouldn’t ban fracking, ...

The president of the Heinz Endowments is leaving the Pennsylvania philanthropy in what sources suggest to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review could be an outgrowth of internal disputes over the foundation’s ...

The extraction of gas and oil by fracking—large-scale fracturing of underground rocks by injecting water, sand and ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking - a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells - may be to ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - One of America's corporate giants is investing billions of dollars in the new boom of oil and gas drilling, or fracking. General Electric Co. is opening a new laboratory in Oklahoma, ...

Environmentalists will gather Saturday (June 21) in Covington for "Frackstock,'' an all-afternoon, anti-fracking rally at the Tammany Trace trailhead. Sponsored by the Sierra Club, the event begins ...