Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” is a process of extracting natural gas and oil from several miles deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Over the past decade, fracking has ...

A new policy study explains the facts about hydraulic fracturing so legislators and regulators can make better-informed decisions on fracking issues. The study, authored by energy policy analyst Isaac ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. PROVO, UT — On Monday, The New York Times wrote about an “unlikely resistance” building in “energy-friendly” Greeley ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

The $6 trillion global energy industry has undergone a lot of changes over its long history, from the first successful oil tanker developed by Sweden in 1878 to the first mobile steel barges for ...

A late compromise over trade-secret exemptions led to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Tuesday unanimously approving requirements that Gov. John Hickenlooper and others say will ...

Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting natural gas. It was invented in the 1940s, but gained popularity in the past two decades, particularly in the U.S. This is because ...

My water well went dry a week or two ago and I was transporting town water to put in it until the well company could come out ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The revelation this month from Physicians for Social Responsibility that the oil and gas industry in Colorado has been using a chemical that will eventually ...

Hydro-fracking is a process where exploration companies inject a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground, creating cracks in shale rock formations. That process allow ...

While the plaintiffs do not argue with New York’s right to ban fracking, they believe that the Fifth Amendment of the ...