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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Studies revealed that dozens of children and young adults were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma and other forms of cancer in a four-county area outside Pittsburgh. In this photo from June 2019, Janice ...

90+ organizations oppose proposal to drill thousands of fracking wells in Southern Tier On Thursday, 50+ activists organized by Food & Water Watch rallied outside Governor Hochul’s Manhattan office to ...

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 ...