hydraulic fracturing

Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston,…

As lawmakers scrambled to wrap up the session last month, they passed hundreds of bills, most of which were well outside of the public’s view. Due to the…

For seven years, journalist and New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold reported and wrote the story of how fracking in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Marcellus…

The Delaware River Basin Commission Thursday released draft regulations that would ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the basin. The draft rules also…

Over the past decade a new and controversial energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has rocketed to the forefront of U.S.…

Fracktivists, as anti hydrofracking activists are called, hope to play a role in New York’s presidential primary. They are asking Democrats Hillary…

Environmentalists are welcoming the official end to the years-long fracking debate in New York. State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens…

A new report examines the possibility and practice of potentially radioactive out-of-state fracking waste getting dumped in New York despite Governor…

When New York became the second state in the nation (after Vermont) to ban the controversial gas drilling method hydraulic fracturing, some were surprised…

A Hudson Valley congressman is weighing in with his view of Wednesday’s decision from top state administration officials to ban fracking in New…