A seismologist has confirmed that 11 recent earthquakes in the Youngstown, Ohio, area are the result of an underground disposal well used in the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process. According to a report from New York Daily News and Akron Beacon Journal, a seismologist at Columbia University agreed with many that nearly a dozen earthquakes in [...]

One of the leading natural gas drillers operating in Wyoming has offered sharp criticism of federal findings which blame hydraulic fracturing (fracking) wells for localized water contamination. According to a report from The Denver Post, EnCana has quickly responded to an Environmental Protection Agency report released last week which determined water contamination at Pavillion, Wyo., [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency released revolutionary findings last week when it said water contamination near Pavillion, Wyo., was “likely” the result of nearby hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations.

According to a New York Times report on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) leases signed with private landowners, most who’ve inked contracts are regretting that decision just a few years later. In its latest report on fracking activity in the Mid Atlantic, specifically, the source highlights one specific example of a fracking lease gone bad in Dimock, [...]

A hydraulic fracturing (fracking) boom in one part of North Dakota has put an impossible strain on local resources and is threatening the local environment. NPR reports from western North Dakota, where one county’s population has doubled in just a few years due to more than 200 oil wells now pumping the fuel resource from [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting rules which require the makers of chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process to submit safety and health impact reports. Regulators are reacting to a petition it received earlier this year from more than 120 health and environmental groups, according to a report at Chemical & Engineering News. [...]

A government prove into contamination in Wyoming’s water supply has revealed what ProPublica described as “alarming levels of underground pollution.” Residents have been complaining for some time about contaminated water linked to drilling activities. Meanwhile, a separate nationwide study continues on the effect of natural gas drilling. Natural gas drilling, known as hydraulic fracturing or [...]

In Cooperstown, New York, the fracking fight has taken a nasty turn. Consider, for instance, a letter that resident Kim Jastremski received—she was one of nearly a dozen who received similar correspondence—that not only compared her and other fracking opponents to Nazis, but told these residents that they were being watched when picking up their [...]

New York environmentalists and industry are facing a delay in a long-awaited air pollution rule that has both sides worried. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just announced that it is delaying, again, final hydraulic fracturing emission standards. The EPA putting off the fracking air pollution rules buys the agency some time to finalize the [...]

A seismology expert in England has tied two earthquakes there to hydraulic fracturing—fracking—activities in the area. This is not the first time that earthquakes have been linked to the highly controversial natural gas drilling process in other countries. According to the New York Times, seismologist Brian Baptie, the seismic project team leader for the British [...]