PITTSBURGH (AP) — The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, found no evidence that chemicals or brine water from the gas drilling process moved upward to ...

Chemicals found in wells near the site of a 2022 incident in Freeport Township indicate a link to nearby fracking activity, according to a recent report by researchers from the University of ...

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board produced this month a draft of proposed revisions to a 2015-issued report, and in it echoed Texas anti-fracking plaintiffs' concerns ...

Drinking water photo from the Ohio Governor's Office. The chicks from Ohio’s fossil fuels-based energy policy have grown up quickly and are coming home to roost. In Washington County, Marietta area ...

Pennsylvania is one of the few states that has specified a right to clean water in its constitution. However, a recent study has linked contaminated drinking water to fracking activity in communities ...

Environmental advocates and Ohioans converged in Columbus on Monday to call out the environmental havoc that extending lease terms to frack Ohio's state parks and public lands will cause Ohio's air, ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just released a draft report implicating hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, with groundwater contamination in Pavillion. Our story about this, which will ...