Fracking a gas well requires up to 6 million gallons of water—but that's not as bad as it soundsJason Janik/Bloomberg via Getty Images When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a ...

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 ...

For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

May 14 (Reuters) - While Pennsylvania, northwestern Louisiana and gas-rich areas around the Gulf of Mexico are losing jobs and revenue as the fracking industry shrinks after a price collapse, oil-rich ...

Pemex estimates that Mexico holds far larger reserves in non-conventional formations than in conventional ones. The government is now weighing whether those resources can be developed without ...

As a community organizer and environmental activist for over 15 years, I’ve often used the metaphor that “we are spinning on a hamster wheel.” That phrase gets mixed reactions. Some nod in agreement, ...

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s attitude toward natural-gas “fracking” seems to depend on whether it occurs somewhere that would be politically inconvenient for him. McAuliffe (D) said recently he's ...