Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 5—GROVE CITY — A retired pediatrician spoke Oct. 24 about the dangers of drilling through hydraulic fracturing, including its ...

To The Reader’s Forum: Thanks to the Cuomo Adminstration for banning high volume horizontal fracturing (fracking) in NY. If fracking came to my rural neighborhood, this would happen: To frack a well ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking — a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells — may be to ...

When Pennsylvania pioneered unconventional fracking, the political and regulatory landscape was not prepared for the shale gas boom that would be unleashed across the Commonwealth. Over two decades ...

John Lea, a retiree from Covington concerned about fracking, holds a protest sign at the Department of Natural Resources June 17 hearing on one of the permits sought by Helis, which has proposed to ...

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 ...

I first started organizing in my community – Love Canal in Niagara Falls – after figuring out that a chemical waste dump was making my kids and neighbors sick in the late 1970s. It quickly became ...