When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

DENTON, Texas Anti-fracking activists and campaigners backed by big oil and gas companies sparred outside of voting sites on the last day of early voting in a North Texas university town that s ...

More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

Three oil patch veterans came up with an interesting idea: Why not drill wells, frack the rock below and inject it full of water, but instead of producing oil or natural gas, store the energy in a way ...

Tom Phillips said his clients or others who object to fracking bans will probably follow a two-pronged legal strategy. A Colorado judge's decision to overturn a hydraulic fracturing ban that voters ...

A Chesapeake Energy drilling site near Big Wells in South Texas uses fracking. The boom in shale gas drilling has created half a million jobs. Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anti-fracking advocates hung up signs before an Oil and Gas Land Management Commission meeting. (Photo by Megan Henry, Ohio ...