The biggest long-term threat facing the hydraulic fracking industry isn’t the price of oil or natural gas. After all, the global glut that drove prices down proves the energy industry can have success ...

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 ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File photo of fracking pumpjacks. (Getty Images.) The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

The vote was met by cheers from many in the audience at the meeting who have been voicing their concerns about fracking, most notably the claim that recent research shows a correlation between ...

Cheap, abundant energy generated by fracking will bring a “new American century,” contends Philip Verleger, an economist and former director of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Energy Policy who runs his ...

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 ...

Under the soils of the Kimberley lies one of the world’s last undeveloped large-scale reservoirs of onshore gas, according to the gas company hoping to extract it. Last month, the Western Australian ...