An area environmental organization sees Pennsylvania’s new requirement that natural gas drillers reveal the chemicals in fracking fluids earlier in the drilling process as “long overdue.” A trade ...

Last Thursday, the US Department of the Interior released a draft proposal that would “establish common-sense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands.” Last Friday, the US ...

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The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — and no pair of bills demonstrates this more thoroughly than the proposed Ohio Senate Bill 219 and Ohio Senate Bill 294.

“Fracking” is a common name for hydraulic fracturing, which is a process that uses a high-pressure mix of water, chemicals ...

WASHINGTON — The oil industry's leading trade group, trying to fend off mounting concerns about hydraulic fracturing used to extract natural gas, warned Thursday that tougher government regulations ...

Investors are challenging 10 energy companies, including Chevron and Exxon Mobil, to release more information about how they do hydraulic fracturing, a process better known as "fracking," in which a ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. CECIL – When Cecil Township’s board of supervisors has its monthly ...