Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just beyond a fenced-off access road in fields of tall grass on public land in Pennsylvania’s northwest sits a natural gas well ...

Kayaks sit at a rental shop along the Aurora Reservoir shoreline on May 30. Civitas, an oil and gas company, has submitted a proposal to operate 166 wells near the ...

Pennsylvania’s environmental regulator will study a plan to sharply increase the distance between new natural gas drilling sites and homes, schools and hospitals. That development follows a vote ...

Ted Auch in 2018 when he was the Midwest program director at the time for Fractracker Alliance, surveying fracking impacts in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. A dozen years ago, as fracking was ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – At least one interested driller asked the state to open an additional 4,360 acres of Egypt Valley Wildlife Area and 383 acres of Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area, both in Belmont County, ...

Nearly a year-and-a-half after an environmental nonprofit appealed the Department of Environmental Protection’s renewal of permits for two Penn Township gas wells, the case will be reviewed by the ...

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

Five years after a Pennsylvania grand jury made eight recommendations to protect public health and the environment from fracking, the state has largely failed to follow through, five environmental ...

A flare from a fracking well burns off excess gas near a home. There are 225 active wells located on 30 well pads in Allegheny County, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of ...

Fracking’s rise in popularity Fracking can be dated back to the 1860s but became dominant in US oil and gas production in the ...