“There is no oversight,” says Robert Green, who works in southwestern Pennsylvania in an industry that insures that pipelines can appropriately handle the complex and often hazardous fuels and waste ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Fracking is a big deal in Pennsylvania (Pa), one of seven ...

The vote was met by cheers from many in the audience at the meeting who have been voicing their concerns about fracking, most notably the claim that recent research shows a correlation between ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which oil and natural gas are extracted from underground rock formations. Fracking provides many benefits but has some costly side effects. Fracking ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted in moss. The pipe releases treated ...

“She’s going to have no fracking. That’s going to cost Pennsylvania 500,000 jobs and the revenues untold.” - Trump, remarks to the media at a McDonald’s in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, Oct. 20 ...

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 ...

Plans to open a 'mini fracking' site in Burniston, North Yorkshire, were met with outrage from campaigners and residents ...