Pro-fracking ads on TV now rival in frequency the ones for expensive pharmaceuticals we’ll never need. My gut reaction is that anyone who needs to advertise that heavily — or can afford to — must be ...

Pennsylvania environmental regulators have found a likely correlation between a natural gas company’s fracking operation and a series of tiny earthquakes in western Pennsylvania last year. The quakes ...

LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - It is time to stop demonising hydraulic fracturing. Oil and gas production is a messy, dirty business that produces all sorts of harmful waste. But the chemicals used in ...

Ministers have been advised to allow the controversial practice of fracking for shale gas to be extended in Britain, despite it causing two earthquakes and the emergence of serious doubts over the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A government panel on Thursday called the risk of water pollution from natural gas fracking "remote." The U.S. Energy Department's natural gas advisory subcommittee urged ...

A possible correlation between fracking and radon has been studied several times, but whether there's a link remains an unanswered question.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Chris Wright, who runs a Colorado-based oil and natural gas fracking services company, to lead the Energy Department. Wright, the chief executive officer of ...

A community protest of up to 30 people was held outside a global shale industry conference in Perth on June 28. Campaign group No Fracking WAy organised the protest. The two-day conference on global ...

A pair of House Democrats say the state should change the way it taxes the fracking industry, a move that would generate billions of dollars of additional revenue for the state. At the same time, the ...