What to Expect as El Niño Approaches As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods Virginia Governor Signs Dominion-Backed Bills. All Eyes on Regulators Now. On ...

As the nation’s natural gas production booms, Democrats eyeing the White House may find themselves in a fracking fight. As the nation’s natural gas production booms, Democrats eyeing the White House ...

Last Sunday, Opinion asked Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas — a statewide, citizen-funded advocate for clean air, clean water and open spaces — about fracking and water. We asked the same ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Kristina Marusic, a journalist for Environmental Health News ...

Last Wednesday, the natural gas company CNX Resources released the initial results from its environmental monitoring collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a ...

The development of new technologies to drill horizontally is what has made hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, attractive to explore for, and produce from, oil and gas deposits. The technology has ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

Fracking – a controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil from underground – is a deeply divisive topic. Some say it damages property and causes pollution, while others contend it is a safe, ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told reporters Thursday morning that the process of natural gas extraction called fracking was safe and should be used, provided it was properly regulated. “I still have ...