Fracking — the practice of drilling deep into the earth and cracking through layers of tight shale to extract natural gas — was in the spotlight during last night’s debate between Vice President ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he’s fighting the kind of “politicized science that drove Froot Loops to the top of the food pyramid.” President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services has ...

There is a lot of controversy surrounding the practice of fracking, but this is what it is and how it can save money.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts. But scientists say opponents sometimes mislead the public, too. Critics of ...

Does fracking make people sick? The jury is largely still out on that one. However, new info indicates that some claims about hydraulic fracturing’s reportedly significant health risks appear to have ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

What do Bigfoot and New York’s ban on fracking ban have in common? The evidence supporting the existence of both is equally (un)credible. Gov. Cuomo last month made history by making New York the ...

New research compares the health impacts of fracking on either side of the New York and Pennsylvania border and found that people who live in areas with a high concentration of fracking wells are at ...

Editor: A recent editorial called for a discussion around “fracking’s environmental impacts” (“One-sided discussions on issues don’t promote true progress,” March 11) What experience, scientific ...