The engine of the boom that turned the United States into the world’s largest oil producer could see its already thin margins ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The United States is experiencing a fracking boom. The Energy Information Administration said the U.S. produced more oil in 2023 than has ever been produced by any country. Now, ...

Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2015, he knew that he would be busy ...

Enter the “Hive.” Just outside of Denver, a small team of people oversees Liberty Energy’s entire fleet of fracking operations nationwide, largely to supervise the AI-automated work with human eyes.

All along the highway that leads into this city in West Texas, the rows of black pump jacks seem endless, bobbing up and down as they pull crude oil from beneath the parched scrub desert. The pump ...

Fracking involves pumping huge volumes of water, sand and chemicals underground to split open rocks to allow oil and gas to flow. Improved technology has allowed energy companies to gain access to ...

Historically, scientific studies have found little, if any, evidence that the act of fracturing a well can pollute groundwater with hydrocarbons or fracking fluids. While that idea has become ...