Environmentalists worry that Toronto's drinking water could be threatened by the nearby treatment of toxic wastewater in New York State. Residents on both sides of the border worry about the potential ...

Here you can search the frac fluid chemicals pumped into more than 1,800 Pennsylvania wells between Jan 1, 2011 and Aug. 31, 2012. Here you can search the frac fluid chemicals pumped into more than ...

(THE CONVERSATION) From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas wells have been fracked.

Hydraulic fracturing has reshaped global energy markets by unlocking vast shale gas reserves, delivering economic gains while raising environmental and public health concerns. This balanced analysis ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Kristina Marusic, a journalist for Environmental Health News ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is now saying more about ...

As if the debate over the use of hydraulic fracturing in the US was not bombastic enough, an executive at US services giant Halliburton ratcheted it up a notch in terms of publicity (maybe not ...

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 ...

Besides chemicals, drillers also must make public some ‘trade secret’ ingredients. DENVER — Colorado will require energy companies to disclose the concentrations of all chemicals in hydraulic ...

The Bureau of Land Management is requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing under a new rule that was immediately challenged in court by oil and gas industry groups.