Given how profound an effect hydraulic fracturing has had on the U.S. economically in recent years, it can come something of a shock to discover how little we know about it. Blasting water, sand and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio commission awarded bids to frack oil and gas under state parks Monday, despite statewide backlash and an ongoing investigation into possibly fraudulent support. The Ohio ...

We all know by now how much water it takes to frack a well. In the Susquehanna River Basin, just one well can use an average 4.4 million gallons of water during a frack job, which can last several ...

Exxon Mobil is betting that a better way to frack will double the amount of oil it can pump from shale fields. “There’s just a lot of oil being left in the ground,” Chief Executive Officer Darren ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As traffic whizzed by on Interstate 25, 12 trucks in a field near Frederick, each with a 1,200-horsepower motor, fired up and began pumping fluid out of ...

Not since the Bush-Gore presidential election brought us “hanging chad” has a term entered the popular lexicon so quickly and so thoroughly. When oil and gas companies developed the technology to pump ...

I've been known to spend a lot of my time arguing through the theory of how we ought to deal with climate change: I always end up arguing for a simple and straight carbon tax. However, while this does ...

Some 21 billion barrels of wastewater a year flows from oil and natural gas wells in the US, and while the market to recycle frack water has been slow to emerge, the potentially multi-billion-dollar ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado today adopted the nation’s toughest rule requiring oil and gas drillers to disclose all the chemicals used in the fracking fluids they pump down ...

Now personally, it is hard to remember which Real Housewives star was Frick and which one was Frack. But both always remembered to have a good time when they were together. Another memorable scene was ...

Monthly gas bills in New York City are roughly 15% higher than in Philadelphia thanks to the contrast in state policies, writes The Post Editorial Board. Hans Pennink New York wouldn’t have to worry ...