You’ve heard of geothermal energy — it’s touted as a clean alternative. You’ve also heard of fracking, which is … not always thought of that way. One creates energy from the earth’s heat. The other ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting oil and gas by cracking underground rocks – is about to stage a comeback.

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 ...

Professional well-driller Joe Curry of Holly has been speaking out against the expansion of fracking in Michigan. Among his presentations was one given in Ferndale Apr. 23 at the request of Oakland ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a ...

Drilling and fracking with carbon dioxide is now permanently banned Environmental, public health, and community leaders from across New York are thrilled that Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the ...

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 ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...