Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent years has been combined with horizontal drilling ...

which is an area on the verge of prospering as more and more shale reserves are tapped into. The Bottom Line: There are a lot of “fracking” companies involved in oil and gas extraction.

Fracking often releases large amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas that traps heat at least 87 times more effectively than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Fracked shale gas wells, ...

The data center boom is coming to Pittsburgh — and natural gas is fueling it. Why it matters: Artificial intelligence is ...

Advocates maintain that increasing setbacks — the distance between a gas well and housing, water sources or other restricted ...

Methane joins carbon dioxide among critical greenhouse gases that add to global warming, according to Cornell, and shale gas ...

Drilling for shale gas at Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, started on 15 October after a legal challenge failed Operations have been suspended at the UK's only active shale gas fracking site ...

Faced with tense trade relations and high dependence on U.S. natural gas imports, Mexico is reportedly considering expanding ...

A new report assesses the governor’s first two years, concluding that a few positive steps are outweighed by larger inaction.

Fracking breaks up rock formations to allow oil and gas extraction. But it can also pollute local air ... other dangerously extreme fossil fuel extraction methods in the Monterey Shale. This ...