FILE - Work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa., March 12, 2020. Facing the need to win Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris has sworn off any prior assertion that she ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" - site in Tyler County, W.Va., in 2021. Photo by Howard Gorrell. If you watched the ...

MEXICO CITY, April 9 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday acknowledged a shift in her position on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, arguing new technologies make the extraction ...

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has instructed state-run oil company Ecopetrol to cancel its joint venture with the US-based Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) due to environmental concerns. The venture, ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking - a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells - may be to ...

North Yorkshire Council says a decision will be confirmed in the near future on the Burniston plan.

Environmentalists will gather Saturday (June 21) in Covington for "Frackstock,'' an all-afternoon, anti-fracking rally at the Tammany Trace trailhead. Sponsored by the Sierra Club, the event begins ...