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 ...

A case argued Tuesday before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court could test the reach of local efforts to challenge natural gas fracking. Concerned Residents of West Deer (CROWD), a local advocacy group, ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

A total of 8,749 acres at the Salt Fork State Park and Egypt Valley Wildlife Area are being considered for fracking approval in late March or early April.

The industrial sand-mining project approved for a parcel along U.S. Highway 550 in Bloomfield looks far different today than the facility B8D LLC pitched to residents and city officials. Brock ...

This story is published in partnership with DeSmog, the climate investigations site. A cache of government documents dating back nearly a century casts serious doubt on the safety of the oil and gas ...

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...

PERTH, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A controversial fracking plan in Western Australia’s remote and ecologically delicate Kimberley region was approved by the state’s environmental protection authority on ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

I wouldn’t wish living next to an active frack site on my worst enemy. The low humming noise, bright lights and vibrations keep you up all night. The foul smells fill your home and your lungs. But ...