Amid the growing water shortage in West Texas, the Texas Legislature has given oil and gas companies the opportunity to reuse ...

But a new state law has farmers and environmental advocates raising serious concerns. Governor Greg Abbott has signed a law ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of ...

As a result, the analysis estimates operators have injected 30 million pounds of unknown chemicals into the ground throughout ...

Fracking — shorthand for hydraulic fracturing — is the process of extracting gas or oil deep underground using a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals to break up rock.

A state regulator has adopted a rule banning the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or "forever chemicals," in the fracking process. But advocates pushing for more ...

Since this is a lot harder to do, energy companies use a process you've likely heard of — hydraulic fracturing, or, fracking — to remove the oil from this impermeable rock. Fracking involves ...

“Fracking” is a common name for hydraulic fracturing, which is a process that uses a high-pressure mix of water, chemicals ...

Jesse Emspak has 20+ years of experience as journalistic entrepreneur and 10 years of financial services reporting on Wall Street. With all the attention paid to fracking—and the oil and gas ...

Trump is hitting Harris with TV ads about her fracking flip. But the drilling process might not be as important to voters as pundits suggest. If it’s true that support for a fracking ban is ...