Texas leads the United States in oil and gas production, including producing 43% of the nation’s crude oil and 27% of its natural gas in 2023. Yet its cornerstone industry could be straining the state ...

Fracking has been blamed for leaking millions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas that's more potent than carbon dioxide. Fracking is also associated with other airborne hydrocarbons that can ...

This problem has been highlighted by footage of people in fracked areas accidentally setting fire to methane-laced water from kitchen faucets. Water pollution from fracking can happen in variety of ...

This problem has been highlighted by footage of people in fracked areas setting fire to methane-laced water from kitchen faucets. Fracking can also expose people to harm from lead, arsenic and ...

That’s the other side of this Jekyll-and-Hyde story: A lot of methane is being burned these days. In the past decade the technology called hydraulic fracturing, “fracking” for short ...

(‘Glacial Fracking’: A Hidden Source of Arctic Greenhouse Gas Emissions, ScienceDaily, Feb. 19, 2025) As a result, scientists now need to reassess methane budgets, incorporating glacial ...

became ground zero in a national debate over fracking — the extraction technique that spurred a boom in U.S. oil and gas drilling — after residents began reporting that methane and drilling ...

If the cement casing that surrounds a fracking well is made incorrectly, natural gas can leak along its sides or through cracks, releasing harmful gases like methane to the environment.

The investigation revealed the company’s activities associated with drilling and producing unconventional gas wells were responsible for methane pollution in the local water supply.

Editor: A recent editorial called for a discussion around “fracking’s environmental impacts ... Pennsylvania producers have achieved exceptionally low methane emissions across their ...