Of all things flammable in the wide world, tap water shouldn’t be one of them. At least that’s the consensus—call it crazy—among environmentalists and fracking foes, for whom the phenomenon, ...

WEBVTT DAVID COLLINS REPORTSSUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS OF THECONTROVERSIAL PROCESS AREPRESSING LAWMAKERS TO ACT.DAVID THE STATE MORATORIUM ON: FRACKING EXPIRES IN 8 MONTHS.ACTIVISTS ARE MOUNTING A ...

You've probably heard about fracking, by now. It's a short-hand term for hydraulic fracturing, a method for extracting natural gas by drilling into shale and pumping a mix of water and chemicals into ...

GERMANTON – Lois Gibbs, the woman who led a fight against a toxic waste dump in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, N.Y., in the late 1970s and early 1980s, is helping people in North ...

It may seem like an unlikely place, but the quintessentially English village of Balcombe in the southeastern county of Sussex, has become the scene of an emotional war over fracking. More than a ...

In their long-running fight to prevent a New Orleans company from drilling a fracking oil well in St. Tammany Parish, activists have often pointed to other communities around the country as models for ...

VESTAL, N.Y. (AP) Big energy companies have been trying for five years to tap the riches of the Marcellus Shale in southern New York, promising thousands of new jobs, economic salvation for a ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...