An Ohio commission gave the green light Monday for several bidders to frack under state lands, almost exclusively in ...

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It is hard to believe that just a decade ago, there was a massive backlash against fracking. This was the technology pioneered by drillers such as Harold Hamm of Continental Resources, which unlocked ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which oil and natural gas are extracted from underground rock formations. Fracking provides many benefits but has some costly side effects. Fracking ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

Data center developers and the world’s largest tech firms are increasingly looking to natural gas as the fastest way to access the massive quantities of electricity needed to build artificial ...

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 ...

ODNR’s network of seismographic stations around the state detected 53 earthquakes in Noble County, located in southeast Ohio, in that time frame. Most were so small they likely went unnoticed. But ...

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 ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...

“There is no oversight,” says Robert Green, who works in southwestern Pennsylvania in an industry that insures that pipelines can appropriately handle the complex and often hazardous fuels and waste ...