When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in 2007, she never envisioned her home would be surrounded by 78 oil and gas fracking wells a decade later, she said. "I wanted to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The record U.S. oil and gas boom may lie on a bedrock of aggressive sales and legal “compulsion,” a new study has found. Many Ohio ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Injection wells the state allowed to operate for more than six months after a state regulator deemed them an “imminent danger” to Athens County and its people now must stop pumping ...

Jill Hunkler is a seventh-generation Ohio Valley resident who says her home was affected by fracking well unitization. automation When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in ...

That play on a line in the 1967 film “The Graduate” may well sum up Donald Trump’s line of attack on energy policy in Tuesday’s debate with Kamala Harris. The presidential contest is shining a renewed ...

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...

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 ...

Well sites with horizontal wells are able to make contact with more surface area of a rock formation compared to vertical well systems, which has also added to the production potential of the ...