Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — and no pair of bills demonstrates this more ...

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Oil and natural gas operators use hydraulic fracturing to split open underground formations to allow oil and gas to flow to the surface. But the practice, often known as fracking, has also brought ...

Environmental watchdog groups say the most far-reaching provisions have been pulled out of a bill changing the state's natural gas drilling laws. But it will be another sprawling regulatory reform ...

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 ...

The driest summer in more than a decade prompted an Ohio watershed district this summer to take the unprecedented step of limiting the use of water for oil and gas fracking. The restrictions applied ...

A study of 127 shallow gas wells drilled in Arkansas found no evidence that the use of hydraulic fracturing resulted in contamination of area groundwater supplies, the United States Geological Survey ...

Freshwater use in oil and gas drilling has come under scrutiny in Colorado as the state faces a historic drought. On Wednesday, March 12, state regulators announced new rules that will require ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gulfport Energy’s Seneca Lake Reservoir freshwater withdrawal pump, Belmont County, Ohio. Credit: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, ...