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 ...

Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) sparred over their commitment to the science of climate change, with the vice president repeatedly falsely asserting a Biden administration ...

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India's plans to scale up fracking operations without robust regulations could spell disaster for the country's finely balanced water security, according to research. India's plans to scale up ...

Researchers recently published a study about how to trace fracking fluid. The idea was to figure out how to identify potential groundwater contamination. And then the media spin cycle created a giant ...

Environmental Protection Agency science advisers want the agency to provide quantitative proof that fracking doesn’t pollute the water table after the agency already said there is no evidence it does.

Above: Members of New Yorkers Against Fracking celebrated the governor’s decision outside his Manhattan office on Wednesday. By Chang W. Lee for The New York Times In a major victory for people who ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to have it both ways: decrying captured science when it suits his current agenda, while ignoring it when it benefits his personal convictions. AP Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says ...

Gordon Tomb pays about $40 per month to heat his home in central Pennsylvania. And he wants to keep it that way. “I’ve lived in Pennsylvania for more than 60 years and have never paid so little for my ...

What do Bigfoot and New York’s ban on fracking ban have in common? The evidence supporting the existence of both is equally (un)credible. Gov. Cuomo last month made history by making New York the ...

New Analysis of Fracking Science (nearly 2,000 studies) Finds Grave Health, Environmental Justice, and Climate Impacts Major report from health experts and scientists who have closely assessed a ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has been linked to everything from polluted water to earthquakes, but the rush toward developing the practice hasn't slowed much. Although residents of small towns ...