More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

While hydraulic fracking has been around since the late 1940s, it initially didn't prove enormously profitable in extracting gas and oil from rock formations known as shale. That changed in 1997 when ...

WASHINGTON — A proposal to restrict natural gas production in a Virginia national forest has become a flashpoint in the debate over whether drilling endangers water — in this case, water used by ...

The decision sets the Cook government up for a showdown with Labor Party faithful, who voted to ban fracking at last year’s ...

Fears that the Trump administration is looking for ways to lift a longstanding ban on fracking for natural gas in the densely populated Delaware River Basin—which includes part of Pennsylvania—have ...

Council planners who have backed plans for lower-volume fracking in North Yorkshire have been warned they risk opening a “can ...

An environmental watchdog has recommended a Kimberley fracking proposal but conservationists say the decision is flawed and ...

Two sides in a planning dispute over gas drilling and lower volume fracking near Scarborough have accused each other of ...