Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far ...

HALIFAX - A former university president who oversaw the report that led to a decade-long ban on fracking in Nova Scotia is ...

I read with interest the “My Turn” submitted by Mr. Amalio Madueño, a lobbyist with connections to Chevron, in the Dec. 18, ...

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...

There's an old saying that I won't spell out completely, but which most readers will certainly have heard at least once in their lives, to wit: "Don't sh-- where you eat." It is an all-purpose warning ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

South Africa plans to lift a 13-year moratorium on shale gas exploration in the ecologically sensitive Karoo Basin, despite serious environmental and climate concerns raised by advocacy groups. In ...

The Permian Basin is the largest petroleum-producing basin in the United States, and the É.-U. oil and gas industry’s greatest prospect for turning around its financial woes. But the Permian shale ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. “This distribution box is where all the sewage comes in ...

In a major U-turn in energy policy, Mexico has unveiled a 10-year plan to reverse a years-long decline in oil and gas production by tapping more unconventional resources through fracking. Petroleos ...