It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting oil and gas by cracking underground rocks – is about to stage a comeback.

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

Explore the controversy surrounding the Ohio fracking waste well and its impact on local communities and the environment.

Effective oversight starts and ends with full transparency about all aspects of Ohio’s fracking operation, along with ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission has put over 12,000 acres of a remote wildlife area, called Egypt Valley, out ...

A case argued Tuesday before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court could test the reach of local efforts to challenge natural gas fracking. Concerned Residents of West Deer (CROWD), a local advocacy group, ...

In any battle over fracking, transnational corporations would be well-positioned to overpower local resistance.