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

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

For the past several years, parties have disagreed about the disclosure of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," chemicals that are injected into the subsurface as part of the drilling process.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, found no evidence that chemicals or brine water from the gas drilling process moved upward to ...