It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission recently approved over 8,500 acres of land on Salt Fork State Park and Egypt Valley Wildlife Area for fracking. The decision has angered many ...

Fracking is where it's at for U.S. oil production, but it's more than a little complicated. In this week's episode of Industry Focus: Energy, Motley Fool analysts Sean O'Reilly and Taylor Muckerman ...

Effective oversight starts and ends with full transparency about all aspects of Ohio’s fracking operation, along with ...

As regulators and environmentalists study whether hydraulic fracturing can damage the environment, industry scientists are studying ways to create longer, deeper cracks in the Earth to release more ...

A University of Colorado study concluding that certain birth defects are as much as 30 percent more common among mothers living near natural gas wells has come under question by the Colorado ...

Though Helis Oil & Gas Co. will seek to postpone a May 13 hearing before the state Department of Natural Resources, a public meeting will be held as scheduled Monday night on the company's ...

Over the two decades since fracking started near their lands, farmers in the Mexican state of Veracruz have watched their ...