Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

Volcanos are one of the most powerful natural events on Earth. They can release massive amounts of energy in just seconds when they erupt, and if it is an explosive eruption, it can cause devastation ...

A new report from the Ohio River Valley Institute argued the oil and gas industry, not taxpayers, should cover the cost of plugging up hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil wells across Appalachia.

There are thousands of abandoned wells across the country, and governments are often forced to pick up the cost of plugging them. The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil, and a lot ...

CHARLESTON — A major natural gas producer is teaming up with the State of West Virginia on a 20-year plan to fund the plugging of more than 1,000 orphaned wells in the state. Gov. Patrick Morrisey ...