Oil and natural gas operators use hydraulic fracturing to split open underground formations to allow oil and gas to flow to the surface. But the practice, often known as fracking, has also brought ...

Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to find the right line on shale natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal—according ...

The town of Denton, Texas is embroiled in a debate over fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, to extract natural gas. Fracking has brought a steady stream of revenue to Denton for years, but this Tuesday ...

General Electric Company announced $10 billion of clean energy investments, and fracking is front and center. With natural gas fracking at the forefront of energy and environmental debates, here's how ...

When fracking spread across our country in the early 2000s, it ushered in an era of cheap gas and fundamentally changed the American energy landscape. Gas toppled coal to become the dominant source of ...