If you spend a little time investigating on YouTube, it is easy to find videos of tap water that lights on fire. People walk up to their kitchen sinks, open the tap so that water flows freely from the ...

For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire.

Range Resources, the fracking company accused of well contamination (and then exonerated), did not start drilling in Parker County until 2009, nearly half a decade after the photos above were taken.

This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here. MIDLAND On any given day, energy companies ...

Fracking — the practice of drilling deep into the earth and cracking through layers of tight shale to extract natural gas — was in the spotlight during last night’s debate between Vice President ...

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 ...

Donald Trump’s pro-fracking policy will boost an industry that threatens Pennsylvanians with radioactive pollution and more. State leaders must stand up for us. Donald Trump’s pro-fracking policy will ...

MIDLAND — On any given day, energy companies across the vast Permian Basin in West Texas inject millions of gallons of water into the dry brown earth, breaking up layers of rock on the hunt for crude ...