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Oil companies are using Hydraulic Fracturing or “fracking” more and more to get oil and natural gas out of the ground and into our cars and heaters. Fracking involves shooting high pressured sand, ...

THE WOODLANDS — Try your hand at this oil field engineering problem. You have to get a massive amount of gritty, grimy sand into an oil well - it’s one of the ingredients in the powerful slurry of ...

Hydraulic fracturing is safe for human health and the environment as long as proper safeguards are in place, the New York Department of Health concluded in a much-anticipated report. No Significant ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of extracting natural gas by blasting underground rock with water, sand and chemicals. People are protesting its use, saying fracking causes “yellowed ...

We already know that hydraulic fracturing—the process of injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep into the earth to exploit the natural gas trapped inside rock—can likely help cause ...

It’s fair to say that climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge facing our planet, and while much attention is directed towards solutions to the problems it presents, perhaps there’s less ...

Some would say there is only one choice between energy or the environment. But energy and environmental interests are often not the archenemies people make them out to be. This has been the case with ...

Wednesday's news conference by Rep. Mitch Gillespie, a Marion Republican, was not the first word on hydraulic fracturing and natural gas exploration in North Carolina. It certainly won't be the last.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Natural gas drilling companies would be banned in New York from using an extraction method that involves injecting large amounts of liquified carbon dioxide deep underground under ...