Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just beyond a fenced-off access road in fields of tall grass on public land in Pennsylvania’s northwest sits a natural gas well ...

Ted Auch in 2018 when he was the Midwest program director at the time for Fractracker Alliance, surveying fracking impacts in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. A dozen years ago, as fracking was ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Houston-based oil and gas company has drilled the first fracking well beneath Ohio’s preserved park and wildlife lands. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz told ...

The Ohio Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management confirmed an explosion occurred just before 6 p.m. Thursday at a fracking well pad near Salt Fork State Park in Guernsey County. The fire at the ...

Kayaks sit at a rental shop along the Aurora Reservoir shoreline on May 30. Civitas, an oil and gas company, has submitted a proposal to operate 166 wells near the ...

Nearly a year-and-a-half after an environmental nonprofit appealed the Department of Environmental Protection’s renewal of permits for two Penn Township gas wells, the case will be reviewed by the ...

Five years after a Pennsylvania grand jury made eight recommendations to protect public health and the environment from fracking, the state has largely failed to follow through, five environmental ...

After fracking, wastewater called “flowback fluids” returns to the surface and is often injected into underground disposal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Civitas Resources had been on a streak this year. State and county officials signed off on three of the oil and gas company’s proposed well pads — featuring ...

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 ...