The City Council of Arlington has approved plans by French energy giant TotalEnergies to drill 10 new gas wells near a day care center, residential neighborhoods and elementary schools in the heart of ...

As hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) has unlocked untold reserves of natural gas, it has also unleashed a wave of concerns about pollution and, for one family in the Barnett Shale, a long ...

Purpose: In shale reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) exists to create an engineered, high-conductivity fracture network that connects nano- to micro-Darcy matrix pores to the wellbore, ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

Despite public sentiment to the contrary, a key state Senate committee approved a bill Thursday limiting municipal control over oil and gas drilling and prohibiting any city from banning fracking. The ...

One of the bills would give tax credits to companies that use alternative fluids for fracking in the Eagle Ford and Barnett shale. © 2025 American City Business ...

Three protesters opposed to the resumption of hydraulic fracturing in Denton were arrested early Monday after blocking the entrance to a natural gas well site. Adam Briggle, Tara Linn Hunter and Nikki ...

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 ...

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 ...