More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

Hydraulic fracturing, long dominated by the U.S. shale industry, is rapidly becoming a global export as countries seek to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves to meet rising energy demand, ...

The decision sets the Cook government up for a showdown with Labor Party faithful, who voted to ban fracking at last year’s ...

While hydraulic fracking has been around since the late 1940s, it initially didn't prove enormously profitable in extracting gas and oil from rock formations known as shale. That changed in 1997 when ...

WASHINGTON — A proposal to restrict natural gas production in a Virginia national forest has become a flashpoint in the debate over whether drilling endangers water — in this case, water used by ...

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space In Murphy’s Final Weeks, NJ Climate ...

Council planners who have backed plans for lower-volume fracking in North Yorkshire have been warned they risk opening a “can ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

An environmental watchdog has recommended a Kimberley fracking proposal but conservationists say the decision is flawed and ...

Two sides in a planning dispute over gas drilling and lower volume fracking near Scarborough have accused each other of ...