Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fracking pumpjacks. These pieces of equipment are crucial to oil field and fracking operations. (Getty Images.) Let’s say you, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To The Reader’s Forum: Thanks to the Cuomo Adminstration for banning high volume horizontal fracturing (fracking) in NY. If fracking came to my rural neighborhood, this would happen: To frack a well ...

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 ...