The sand is pumped underground along with water and other chemicals to extract oil and natural gas trapped deep in rock. But researchers found... Sand From Fracking Could Pose Lung Disease Risk To ...

When Jill Hunkler moved back to her home state of Ohio in 2010, she decided to settle down near Barnesville and live off the land. A single mother, she bought a home in the Ohio River Valley “because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fracking workers in Pennsylvania are divided over who they will cast their ballots for in the 2024 presidential election. NBC News ...

ERIE, Pa. — Grilled chicken breast, baby tomatoes and couscous were served for lunch at the 2024 Shale Insight Conference this week. So was Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. For three days, oil and gas ...

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Pennsylvania has 500,000 fracking jobs, but reports indicate that the figure is closer to a tenth of that. “There’s very few states that ...

Fracking Water Transport Workers Eligible for OT Pay The transportation of fracking water between oil-and-gas drilling sites does not constitute the type of interstate commerce that would exempt ...

CHICAGO (AP) — More than a year after a much-lauded compromise paved the way for high-volume oil and gas extraction in Illinois, the agency in charge of overseeing the practice has hired just four of ...

When workplace safety expert Eric Esswein got a chance to see fracking in action not too long ago, what he noticed was all the dust. It was coming off big machines used to haul around huge loads of ...