The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission recently approved over 8,500 acres of land on Salt Fork State Park and Egypt ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – More than 9,000 new acres of state-owned land have been made available for fracking, as a result of a decision by the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission. The designated land ...

Clarification: This story was updated to clarify that no drilling will occur until bids are awarded. Ohio is opening up more than 8,200 acres of a wildlife area in southeastern Ohio and another 500 ...

People living in southeast Aurora are losing sleep due to a loud droning noise that suddenly began in the neighborhood, and they're worried a nearby fracking operation may be the cause. It's been a ...

Rising US natural gas exports and soaring domestic demand for the power-plant fuel will lead to a shortage of fracking gear later this decade, according to the head of one the country’s top drilling ...

Let’s pretend there’s a giant switch we could flip that would shut down all the injection wells in Southeast Ohio. Environmental activists will, of course, jump for joy. Susan Vessels might even calm ...

A case argued Tuesday before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court could test the reach of local efforts to challenge natural gas fracking. Concerned Residents of West Deer (CROWD), a local advocacy group, ...

There’s a moment, just before the tight mass of cells that is a developing mouse embryo implants itself in the womb, that it all comes apart. Hundreds of tiny fluid-filled bubbles expand between each ...

KARNES COUNTY, Texas – A 3.1-magnitude earthquake was reported in Karnes County early Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS said the earthquake happened around 1:41 ...

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 ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...