By Maxwell Radwin Earlier this month, state-owned oil company Petroecuador announced a new project involving “hydraulic fracturing” in an oil block in the Ecuadorian Amazon. As a result, some ...

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 ...

Fracking in Mexico could unlock 140 billion barrels of hydrocarbons and 800,000 jobs. MND's CEO argues for why fracking's ...

The AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is the home of the Dallas Cowboys – American football royalty and five-time winners of ...

300,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the test wells, fracked to reach oil once considered too expensive to extract. By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media/InsideClimate News Sign up here.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Buckeye Environmental Network sued the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, claiming the agency improperly approved two fracking waste injection wells near Marietta by using ...

Last Sunday, Opinion asked Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas — a statewide, citizen-funded advocate for clean air, clean water and open spaces — about fracking and water. We asked the same ...

In February of last year, state Rep. Sean Patrick Brennan of Parma introduced a bill to require owners of all hydraulic fracturing (fracking) oil and gas well operations drilling in state parks “to ...

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 ...