Mike Soraghan reports on energy for Politico and E&E News. Marty Whiteman had enough natural gas under his hayfield to make him quite rich when the fracking boom swept through his rugged corner of ...

The biggest long-term threat facing the hydraulic fracking industry isn’t the price of oil or natural gas. After all, the global glut that drove prices down proves the energy industry can have success ...

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a common target for environmental protestors due to its propensity to cause miniature earthquakes and use up vast amounts of water, which eventually ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

Testing in a limited number of shallow aquifers near fracking sites in southwestern Pennsylvania found low levels of radium overall, but there aren’t yet enough samples to draw firm conclusions about ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

Colombia's new government plans to revive fracking as shrinking gas reserves and rising LNG imports intensify pressure on the country's energy system and public finances.

For most of its history, fracking was a boost — like a jolt of strong coffee to wake up sluggish wells. But, in the late 1990s, Texas oilman George Mitchell, the son of working-class Greek immigrants, ...