Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fracking pumpjacks. These pieces of equipment are crucial to oil field and fracking operations. (Getty Images.) Let’s say you, ...

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 ...

Nov. 5—GROVE CITY — A retired pediatrician spoke Oct. 24 about the dangers of drilling through hydraulic fracturing, including its health risks, environmental impact and security risks. The event, ...

Among disturbing revelations in the May 5 story, “Taxpayers paying to clean up someone else’s mess,” is that there are 250 Class II injection wells in Ohio, “each housing millions of gallons of brine ...

The recent and tragic death of former Dallas High School football player John Jones III who was killed in a collision by a natural gas drilling vehicle from Arizona, driven by a man from Texas serves ...

Thank you for reconsidering The Southern Illinoisan's position on fracking. This extreme extraction technique is dangerous to the health and the environment and we are glad that you are willing to ...

John Lea, a retiree from Covington concerned about fracking, holds a protest sign at the Department of Natural Resources June 17 hearing on one of the permits sought by Helis, which has proposed to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— California’s oil and gas regulator submitted its final regulations banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to the state’s Office of Administrative Law on Monday. This is the ...

Let’s say you, like roughly 45% of Ohioans, rely on groundwater wells to provide a constant supply of clean, safe drinking water. Now suppose, unbeknownst to you, an exceptionally toxic cocktail of ...