HOUSTON (Reuters) - Fracking, the latest craze in the quest to produce oil and gas, has been blamed for environmental problems ranging from flammable tap water to minor earthquakes. Now a new risk is ...

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...

RED WING, Minn. - Near the muddy banks of Hay Creek, a popular trout stream, are significant bluffs covered with a hardwood forest of oak, bass wood and black cherry trees. Underneath the forested ...

THE DISCOVERY and development of the Marcellus shale natural gas deposits has been big news in Pennsylvania and neighboring states for several reasons. One is the massive energy resource it represents ...

People are also reading… The process, also known as fracking, blasts millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals, some of them carcinogens, deep into the earth to free gas from dense ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, found no evidence that chemicals or brine water from the gas drilling process moved upward to ...

This story is supported by the Pulitzer Center and is part of the “Texas Energy Crossroads” project, a partnership between ...

NISKAYUNA, New York, April 7 (Reuters) - Carbon dioxide, used for years to force crude oil out of old wells, likely will not replace water in fracking anytime soon because of technical challenges and ...