The technique, honed over the past 15 years in the US, is now being deployed to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves ...

Ohio has hundreds of injection wells that store waste from oil and natural gas production. In one southeast Ohio city, ...

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 ...

One of the key controversies around fracking is the chemical makeup of the fluid that is pumped deep into the ground to break apart rock and release natural gas. Some companies have been reluctant to ...

The Trump administration is pushing forward a decades-old proposal to open up 850,000 acres of Central California to new oil ...

American companies seek opportunities in Venezuela, the Middle East and Australia as domestic shale output plateaus ...

Nine states in the Northeast and the Rocky Mountains have enacted guidelines to regulate hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a process involving injection of chemicals into the ground to extract ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When John ...

Cities of Longmont and Fort Collins had passed laws to ban or delay fracking. — -- The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today against two cities' attempts to limit fracking, saying the legislation ...