WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it has issued a subpoena to Halliburton, demanding information about chemicals it uses in a natural gas drilling technique ...

There is a lot of controversy surrounding the practice of fracking, but this is what it is and how it can save money.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas ...

From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas wells have been fracked. Fracking, short for ...

Colorado would join some other nearby states in requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing under a proposal Gov. John Hickenlooper announced during an industry conference ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) – The oil and gas industry is trying to ease environmental concerns by developing nontoxic fluids for the drilling process known as fracking, but it’s not clear whether the new product ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Companies prospecting for oil off California’s coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed, and now regulators are ...

The Karoo landscape, a water-scarce area near potential shale gas sites. Photo courtesy Surina Esterhuyse Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is used to extract trapped oil and gas from ...