Ohio is opening up more than 8,200 acres of a wildlife area in southeastern Ohio and another 500 acres of Salt Fork State ...

Developers have requested more land for oil and gas fracking in the Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in eastern Ohio after the Ohio ...

A possible correlation between fracking and radon has been studied several times, but whether there's a link remains an ...

The Trump Administration has proposed allowing oil and gas leasing on up to 850,000 acres of land in the Sierra Nevada and ...

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...

The coalition wants Gov. Mike DeWine to call a moratorium on fracking under state parks and public lands. Ohio has 270,176 oil wells, with an estimated 33,000 to 66,000 abandoned, or orphaned, wells ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

As regulators and environmentalists study whether hydraulic fracturing can damage the environment, industry scientists are studying ways to create longer, deeper cracks in the Earth to release more ...

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 ...