Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fracking rig in a cornfield. (Getty Images.) On the night of Jan. 2, there was an explosion on a well pad in eastern Ohio’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Developers have requested more land for oil and gas fracking in the Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in eastern Ohio after the Ohio Oil ...

Flare from a well pad near a home in Southwestern Pennsylvania. A bill in the Pennsylvania Senate would withdraw funding from communities that try to restrict shale gas drilling within their borders.

Kayaks sit at a rental shop along the Aurora Reservoir shoreline on May 30. Civitas, an oil and gas company, has submitted a proposal to operate 166 wells near the ...

I wouldn’t wish living next to an active frack site on my worst enemy. The low humming noise, bright lights and vibrations keep you up all night. The foul smells fill your home and your lungs. But ...

Five years after a Pennsylvania grand jury made eight recommendations to protect public health and the environment from fracking, the state has largely failed to follow through, five environmental ...

Nearly a year-and-a-half after an environmental nonprofit appealed the Department of Environmental Protection’s renewal of permits for two Penn Township gas wells, the case will be reviewed by the ...