Fracking is vital for enhanced geothermal energy, so scientists are exploring how to predict—and mitigate—the tremors it ...

ALBANY — A dozen years after New York banned hydraulic fracturing, there’s a new push to access the state’s underground natural gas and oil resources. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman ...

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 ...

(AP) -- A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft finding that it may have detected groundwater pollution resulting from a controversial technique that plays a huge role in modern oil and gas ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that hydraulic fracturing — a method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells — may be to blame for groundwater ...