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  Seven million Americans could be in danger from man-made earthquakes created by fracking, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has concluded. Incredibly, the risk from fracking-induced damaging quakes in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas is now similar to what ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that two of the world’s largest companies, Exxon-Mobil and Shell, caused earthquakes and damage to homes by drilling for natural gas. The ruling means the two companies will have to compensate thousands of ...

Chemicals from fracking contaminated a family’s water well so much that they sparked a flash explosion that severely injured at least four people, a lawsuit filed in Texas alleges. “The explosion caused severe and extensive burns to Cody Murray, leaving ...

The debate over hydraulic fracturing’s impact on America’s water supply is a heated one, and the Environmental Protection Agency added fuel to the argument in early June by issuing a long-awaited report that both sides of the issue said supported ...

Hydraulic fracking has the potential to pollute the nation’s streams, aquifers and wells, according to a massive new report from the Environmental Protection Agency that also concluded that even though pollution already has happened, it is not widespread. It is ...

California fracking companies will be allowed to use all the water they want, even during the worst drought in the Golden State’s history. When Governor Jerry Brown ordered average Californians to cut their water use by 25 percent on April ...

The residents of a small Ohio town could lose their water supply if a federal lawsuit filed by a fracking company that has made hundreds of millions of dollars succeeds. Gulfport Energy is trying to force Barnesville, Ohio, (population 4,100) ...

Fracking is causing earthquakes in Oklahoma and other states, scientists from the US Geological Survey (USGS), the University of Colorado, the Oklahoma Geological Laboratory and Lawrence Berkley Laboratory have determined. A new paper published in the journal Science states that ...

California state officials knowingly let oil and gas drillers dump 3 billion gallons of wastewater from fracking into underground aquifers that supply both irrigation and drinking water in the state’s San Joaquin Valley – a move that has both sides ...

Air pollution from oil and gas drilling is being blamed for a significant increase in the number of infant deaths in Uintah County, Utah – a controversy that some say the industry is trying to cover up. In 2000, before ...