The oil industry’s wastewater is becoming a bigger headache for Texas operators and regulators. Here’s what to know about ...

Cuadrilla's deadline for decommissioning its shale gas wells at its site near Blackpool has passed.

On November 11, the Board of Supervisors of Cecil Township in Western PA increased the setback distance for fracking ...

It makes for an interesting watch, as he leads the viewer through the process in detail ... of the toxic fracking well water released from underground along with the oil or gas.

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe recently announced his department’s plans to conduct the first major ...

fracking now accounts for 95% of new wells in the U.S., generating two-thirds of the total gas market and nearly half of the nation’s crude oil production. The process is central to Trump’s ...

Who do Ohio lawmakers represent in the fracking free-for-all carving up acres of our state parks and public land for oil and ...

"To abandon oil and gas wells costs about half a million pound on average," a representative said. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure ...

including through surface spills and well casing failures. Such accidents are disturbingly common. A fracking boom in North Dakota, for example, has led to thousands of accidental releases of oil, ...