Ohio has hundreds of injection wells that store waste from oil and natural gas production. In one southeast Ohio city, ...

The Trump administration is pushing forward a decades-old proposal to open up 850,000 acres of Central California to new oil leasing and development; but idle wells still dot the landscape.

More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

The technique, honed over the past 15 years in the US, is now being deployed to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves ...

In the far reaches of Appalachian Ohio, DeepRock Disposal Solutions and other companies pump salty, hazardous waste from oil ...

Explore the differences between shale oil and conventional oil, including extraction costs and methods, and how these impact oil market profitability.

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved several wildlife areas and other public lands for hydraulic ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

The acreages that make up the Wayne National Forest in Southeastern Ohio are a patchwork of land parcels which lie in 12 Ohio ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

The Trump administration today released plans to open more than 1 million acres of public lands and mineral rights to oil and ...