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The EPA in no way contends that a draft report on groundwater pollution in Wyoming could apply to hydraulic fracturing in any other part of the U.S., an EPA official told a U.S. House subcommittee - including the Marcellus Shale and shale areas in other northeastern region.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia are trying to top each other with the sweetest package of tax breaks for Shell Oil Co., which plans to build a huge new petrochemical refinery in the region.
Low natural gas prices aren't bad for everyone. A few other industries are seeing enormous boosts with cheap, readily available natural gas.
Forbes sets the record straight with facts about fracking, not playing on emotion like many of the frac-tivists do.
For the third year in a row energy played a central role in President Obama's State of the Union address, with the president leaning hard this year on the twin themes of increased domestic oil and gas production and the need to invest more in renewable sources.
A multibillion-dollar ethane cracker plant would bring hundreds of direct chemical jobs to West Virginia or Ohio and up to seven times as many related jobs, which has both states offering large tax incentives for the plant.
Encana, the second largest natural gas producer in the United States, questions the results of a recent EPA report linking natural gas development with contaminated water in the tiny hamlet of Pavillion, Wyoming.
Fracking in Pavillion, Wyoming, differs from the majority of fracking wells: geological characteristics, shallower wells, vertical fracking and the proximity of fracking activities to the drinking-water aquifer. So, EPA claims may of polluted water do not necessarily apply to most states who are using hydraulic fracturing.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released the outlines of its long-awaited probe into whether hydraulic fracturing - the unconventional drilling technique that's led to a boom in domestic natural gas production - is contaminating drinking-water supplies.
Economist, Edmond Seifried, says the economy is stagnant and the cure for our ailing economy lies one mile below the Earth's surface.
