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.

Fracking — the practice of drilling deep into the earth and cracking through layers of tight shale to extract natural gas — was in the spotlight during last night’s debate between Vice President ...

GREENBRIER, Arkansas (Reuters) - Tony Davis, a 54-year-old construction worker in central Arkansas, said he welcomed the boom in natural gas drilling that brought jobs and new businesses to his ...

Energy independent Ineos, one of the largest oil and gas operators in the North Sea, has asked the UK government for a license to develop a fracking test site in a bid to prove the technology is safe.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - New groundwater testing in Wyoming shows a lower level of the carcinogen benzene than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported when it linked contaminants in two water ...

WALNUT COVE – By Father’s Day, a drilling crew hired by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources to search for signs of shale gas in the Dan River basin will leave the sampling site ...

During the September 6 edition of Anderson Cooper 360, CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir spoke directly to Pennsylvania voters who live in a fracking community. The segment challenges the ...