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 ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - New groundwater testing in Wyoming shows a lower level of the carcinogen benzene than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported when it linked contaminants in two water ...

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 ...

Vice President Kamala Harris was questioned about her stance on fracking during Tuesday’s presidential debate between her and former President Donald Trump. Harris said that she wouldn’t ban fracking, ...

WALNUT COVE – By Father’s Day, a drilling crew hired by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources to search for signs of shale gas in the Dan River basin will leave the sampling site ...