A new University of Chicago study examining Medicare claims found older adults living near fracking sites in Pennsylvania were more likely to be hospitalized for cardiovascular diseases than those who ...

Children living within a mile of a natural gas fracking well were up to seven times more likely to suffer from lymphoma, a rare kind of cancer, than those who had no such wells within five miles of ...

Energy companies use persistent and personalized pressure to get landowners to give permission for hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and even when landowners decline, companies use legalized compulsion ...

Hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas is linked to an array of health harms, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, asthma and birth defects, according to the latest compilation of studies on the ...

A federal lawsuit alleges New York's fracking ban violates the Fifth Amendment rights of a father and son who own land in ...

The practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has generated significant economic benefits for the United States and increased our energy security. But it has also ignited a fierce debate about ...

A recent News editorial, “We need much better data on fracking before setting off on a drilling boom,” suggested allowing one or two counties to become science experiments for fracking. Any fracking ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

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 ...