Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eight years ago, Michelle Stonemark built her dream home in Cecil Township, Pennsylvania, on the same street as much of her ...

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

I grew up on a farm in Medina County. When I was young, my siblings often teased me about sleeping late. One summer day, my older brother put a ladder against my upstairs bedroom and set his new ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," as it is known, has been a hot-button issue in the 2024 race for the White House between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as the two ...

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Vice President Kamala Harris said she won't ban fracking natural gas, telling KDKA-TV that her position hasn't changed since she joined the Biden ticket in 2020. As a senator back ...

This environmental video essay provides a brief explanation and overview of fracking. Specifically, I look at how fracking works, why it's become so prevalent in the last 15 years, and why there's ...

In any battle over fracking, transnational corporations would be well-positioned to overpower local resistance.

Abrahm Lustgarten is a reporter with Pro Publica, where he is currently writing about hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a technique used to get natural gas from the ground. A mix of water, sand and ...

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 ...