“There is no oversight,” says Robert Green, who works in southwestern Pennsylvania in an industry that insures that pipelines can appropriately handle the complex and often hazardous fuels and waste ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

Trapped in underground rocks, a potential energy resource has eluded generations of British politicians. It's called shale gas and the method of getting it out of the ground, known as fracking, has ...

“And there’s very few states that benefit like you do from fracking. I mean, you have 500,000 jobs.” — Former president Donald Trump, remarks at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Sept. 29 “Kamala has ...

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 ...