To The Reader’s Forum: Thanks to the Cuomo Adminstration for banning high volume horizontal fracturing (fracking) in NY. If fracking came to my rural neighborhood, this would happen: To frack a well ...

Chemicals released into the air when natural gas is produced by hydraulic fracturing may pose a health risk to those living nearby, the Colorado School of Public Health said Monday. Researchers found ...

Of all things flammable in the wide world, tap water shouldn’t be one of them. At least that’s the consensus—call it crazy—among environmentalists and fracking foes, for whom the phenomenon, ...

EWING — Environmentalists and activists want the Delaware River Basin Commission to turn its temporary ban on fracking in the Delaware River basin into a permanent one. A group of activists dropped ...

You've probably heard about fracking, by now. It's a short-hand term for hydraulic fracturing, a method for extracting natural gas by drilling into shale and pumping a mix of water and chemicals into ...

In 2005, at the behest of then Vice President Dick Cheney, Congress approved what came to be known as the Halliburton Loophole, a rider to the National Energy Policy Act which exempted hydraulic ...