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The Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect water wells by not performing its Congressionally mandated job of inspecting or regulating oil and gas drilling operations. That is the conclusion of a newly released report by the Government Accountability Office ...

A waste disposal process related to fracking has made Oklahoma the second most earthquake-prone state in the US after California, new research indicates. Experts at the University of Colorado-Boulder and Cornell University say they have scientific evidence that the dumping ...

Popular fears about hydraulic fracking might not be as far-fetched as critics have claimed. A professor at Cornell University has documented dozens of cases of animal deaths in several states that may have been caused by fracking. Fracking may also ...

Fracking made Texas ranchers Bob and Lisa Parr, their daughter and their pets sick, a jury in Dallas has found, ordering Aruba Petroleum to pay the Parrs $3 million. “Six regular people who knew nothing about fracking were presented with ...

When the U.S. Geological Survey issued a rare earthquake advisory for Oklahoma in May, the debate began: Is fracking to blame? After all, Oklahoma is a hotbed for fracking, and the number of earthquakes has intensified in recent years – ...

Residents of Oklahoma should prepare themselves for a major earthquake in the near future, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has warned, and the rest of the country should take notice. The survey’s scientists say that a dramatic increase in ...

State governments are not warning the public about potential dangers from fracking, according to a new lawsuit. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is covering up cases of water contamination caused by natural gas fracking, a new lawsuit alleges. Instead ...

Fracking apparently is the cause of recent frequent earthquakes in parts of the United States where quakes are historically rare. Research indicates that tremors in Ohio, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arkansas and Texas might have been caused by fracking. “We can’t guarantee ...

Businesses and their attorneys now can use gag orders to deprive even children of their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. In a disturbing case in Pennsylvania, a drilling company was able to get a family a legal agreement ...

Energy is the driver of any advanced economy, and fossil fuels are a key part of US energy needs. For decades this has mostly meant oil, but natural gas now is seen as a plentiful, relatively clean resource. The USA ...