U.S. EPA has revised its page about hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas production. The changes went live Friday morning, and the biggest difference is that it’s now titled "Unconventional Oil and ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock ...

The Florida Legislature is considering a bill that would allow and regulate the use of a technology that has revolutionized the United States’ energy outlook: hydraulic fracturing. Advancements in ...

In February 2026, Expand Energy Corporation and Evolution Well Services announced an agreement to deploy Evolution’s 100% electric hydraulic fracturing technology in Expand’s upcoming completions ...

The Environmental Protection Agency sent letters to nine drilling companies on Thursday requesting detailed information about the chemicals contained in fluids used to crack open underground rock ...

Over the past two decades, vast deposits of oil and gas have been unlocked in the United States by a late-20th-century extraction-process innovation known as hydraulic fracturing (also known as ...

Health risks increase for infants born to mothers living within 2 miles of a hydraulic fracturing site, according to a new study. From North Dakota to Ohio to Pennsylvania, hydraulic fracturing, also ...

Several environmental monitoring studies have suggested that unconventional natural gas development may contaminate ground water 15, 19, 21, 22 and surface water, 23, 24 potentially leading to ...

Since 2009, when the first lawsuits alleging contamination as a result of hydraulic fracturing were filed, there has been a small wave of litigation by landowners seeking damages from energy companies ...

A swarm of small earthquakes within the Karoo Basin in South Africa has revealed a critically stressed fault that could be perturbed by potential shale gas exploration in the area, according to a new ...