Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a common target for environmental protestors due to its propensity to cause miniature earthquakes and use up vast amounts of water, which eventually ...

Arctic glaciers are leaking significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Glacial melt rivers and groundwater springs are transporting large volumes of methane from beneath the ice to the ...

MARIETTA, Ohio (WCMH) — The federal government sold oil rights in Ohio’s only national forest for $11 million this month, opening it up to fracking. On Sept. 15, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

“Leasing is the first step in the process to develop federal oil and gas resources.” ...

Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington ...

Ohio has become a state of easy virtue for readily allowing “fracking waste” – the hazardous byproducts of the high-pressure slurries injected to extract oil and natural gas from shale far below Earth ...