A massive and growing crack in a hillside above an Altoona-area shopping center has prompted 52 businesses there to close…
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The floundering Pittsburgh International Airport is expected to soon begin earning nearly a quarter of its annual operating budget by…
An energy company is hoping to use a little-used, 53-year-old Pennsylvania law in order to launch a fracking operation on…
The CEO of ExxonMobil – the top producer of natural gas in the US – has joined a lawsuit that…
A video made by a man from North Dakota shows him cautiously holding a lighter up against the stream of…
A new government study found that a 2007 fracking fluid spill in Kentucky killed off several species of fish, including…
The 7- and 10-year-old children of a Pennsylvania couple that reached a settlement following a lawsuit involving health issues brought…
Household drinking water that comes from wells near known fracking sites contains levels of methane six times greater than what’s…
The US Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its plans to further investigate whether or not fracking led to the contamination…
By GARANCE BURKE The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation’s driest pockets, drawing millions of…
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing,…
The Obama administration has broken the law, issuing oil leases across California without examining the risks of fracking. A federal…
By ERIK DE LA GARZA Fracking by Chesapeake oil and Billiton Petroleum caused “thousands of earthquakes” that damaged homes in…
Recognized carcinogens are used in 1 in 3 hydraulic fracturing operations across the nation – according to industry self-reporting. Independent analysis of…
The long-awaited review of a controversial study on the drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” was released today,…
By Elizabeth Royte In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil- and gas-drilling operations nationwide…
By Ben Elgin A subsidiary of Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR) pumped a mixture of chemicals identified only as “EXP- F0173-11”…
US residents living near gas fracking sites frequently develop health problems as chemicals used in the gas extraction have been…