Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas ...

Normally on “Mining and Refining,” we concentrate on the actual material that’s mined and refined. We’ve covered everything from copper to tungsten, with side trips to more unusual materials like ...

If you go to the website, www.fracfocus.org, and search for natural gas wells operated by Williams in Garfield County, you'll find that water makes up 90 percent or more of the fracking materials used ...

Southern Ohio discovers toxic fracking wastewater migrating from deep injection wells, contaminating local groundwater. Fragmented state-level regulations and undisclosed fracking fluid compositions ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...