Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. To many, it’s still a surprise just how big a modern frac ...

300,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the test wells, fracked to reach oil once considered too expensive to extract. By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media/InsideClimate News Sign up here.

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HOUSTON, April 9 - U.S. oil major Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab plans to increase the use of a technique that allows it to fracture subterranean rock in three wells at a time in the Permian basin, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Houston-based oil and gas company has drilled the first fracking well beneath Ohio’s preserved park and wildlife lands. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz told ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Fracking has burst back on to the national stage in the presidential election contest ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...

Well sites with horizontal wells are able to make contact with more surface area of a rock formation compared to vertical well systems, which has also added to the production potential of the ...

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...

Five years after a Pennsylvania grand jury made eight recommendations to protect public health and the environment from fracking, the state has largely failed to follow through, five environmental ...

That play on a line in the 1967 film “The Graduate” may well sum up Donald Trump’s line of attack on energy policy in Tuesday’s debate with Kamala Harris. The presidential contest is shining a renewed ...