Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock. It involves drilling into the ...

LONDON – France and Bulgaria have already banned it, and in Britain the government’s attempts to promote it have led to heated demonstrations in the countryside. It is complicating Germany’s attempts ...

The Labour government is moving to impose a total legal ban on fracking in the U.K., ending years of political back-and-forth ...