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After a three-year de facto ban, on Friday Governor Newsom’s California’s Geologic Energy Management Division released its plan to formally phase out fracking in California. The proposed rule would ...

Southern Ohio discovers toxic fracking wastewater migrating from deep injection wells, contaminating local groundwater. Fragmented state-level regulations and undisclosed fracking fluid compositions ...

More than 1500 people took to the streets of Albany, N.Y. on April 23, 2018, marching to the Capitol Building as part of the "Cuomo Walk The Talk" day of action. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket ...

Ohio has become a state of easy virtue for readily allowing “fracking waste” – the hazardous byproducts of the high-pressure slurries injected to extract oil and natural gas from shale far below Earth ...

Ten years ago, Tim Kettler asked local officials to stop spreading liquid waste from fracking on the road near his home in Warsaw, Ohio, because he was worried that the fluid would contaminate a pond ...