Fracking has led to substantial increases in U.S. domestic oil and gas production, significantly reducing the need for the United States to import oil. U.S. net imports of oil are declining after a 30 ...

“Fracking” is a common name for hydraulic fracturing, which is a process that uses a high-pressure mix of water, chemicals and sand. During the process, a solution of pressurized water, chemicals and ...

While scientists and area residents have been sounding the alarm about the health impacts of shale gas drilling for years, recent studies, a legal decision and public health advocates are bringing ...

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 ...

The town’s nearly year-long debate over a ban against “fracking” — hydraulic fracturing — and the reuse of wastes from the fracking process, which is used in oil and gas extraction, will likely come ...

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 ...

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 ...

Waste from “fracking” — the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract oil and gas from the ground — may not seem much of a threat in leafy, residential, suburban Ridgefield. But problems from the ...