Fracking pumpjacks. These pieces of equipment are crucial to oil field and fracking operations. (Getty Images.) Let’s say you, like roughly 45% of Ohioans, rely on groundwater wells to provide a ...

Proposal to circumvent decade-old NY fracking ban threatens mass poisonings, water contamination, earthquakes, and increased pollution “Southern Tier Solutions’ desperate scheme to bring fracking back ...

Cathy Cowan Becker, Jess Grim, Jenny Morgan, Loraine McCosker, Terri Sabo, Anne Sparks and Melinda Zemper are steering committee members of Save Ohio Parks. A March 31 Dispatch article on Ohio’s gas ...

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far ...

New research suggests fracking waste could contain huge amounts of lithium, a main ingredient in batteries. But fracking will never be part of a clean energy future. New research suggests fracking ...

Nov. 5—GROVE CITY — A retired pediatrician spoke Oct. 24 about the dangers of drilling through hydraulic fracturing, including its health risks, environmental impact and security risks. The event, ...

Among disturbing revelations in the May 5 story, “Taxpayers paying to clean up someone else’s mess,” is that there are 250 Class II injection wells in Ohio, “each housing millions of gallons of brine ...

The recent and tragic death of former Dallas High School football player John Jones III who was killed in a collision by a natural gas drilling vehicle from Arizona, driven by a man from Texas serves ...

A pair of House Democrats say the state should change the way it taxes the fracking industry, a move that would generate billions of dollars of additional revenue for the state. At the same time, the ...

Fracking is not legal in North Carolina, but legislation is slated to be introduced as early as Monday that would overhaul the state's oil and gas laws. "When it's done right, it will be composed of ...

Let’s say you, like roughly 45% of Ohioans, rely on groundwater wells to provide a constant supply of clean, safe drinking water. Now suppose, unbeknownst to you, an exceptionally toxic cocktail of ...