Steve Harmon’s house shakes when the mining company 100 yards away blasts into what was once farmland. His patio is constantly covered in a thin layer of fine white sand. He and his neighbors also had ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission has put over 12,000 acres of a remote wildlife area, called Egypt Valley, out ...

Timothy Nurkiewicz, chair of the WVU Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, conducts research in the Inhalation Facility. WVU has received $1.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to ...

“Fracking” is an expletive in environmental circles. Yet the spirit of shale is creeping into a business with transformational potential for the energy transition. Schlumberger NV, the industrial ...

A bill currently being negotiated in the Illinois House of Representatives would regulate large-scale hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- in the state, and the Missouri mining industry stands to ...

Demand is exploding for the massive amounts of sand used in fracking, creating a windfall for mines from Texas to Wisconsin but leading to worries about the health impacts of breathing silica dust.

ALBANY — A state Assembly and Senate bill banning the use of carbon dioxide in mining operations has been welcomed by local climate activists. The bill, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Dec. 21, bans ...

There was nothing lazy about a former government's decision to ban fracking in Nova Scotia, MLAs heard on Monday. Multiple presenters to the legislature's committee on public bills said the Houston ...