Of all things flammable in the wide world, tap water shouldn’t be one of them. At least that’s the consensus—call it crazy—among environmentalists and fracking foes, for whom the phenomenon, ...

In their long-running fight to prevent a New Orleans company from drilling a fracking oil well in St. Tammany Parish, activists have often pointed to other communities around the country as models for ...

You've probably heard about fracking, by now. It's a short-hand term for hydraulic fracturing, a method for extracting natural gas by drilling into shale and pumping a mix of water and chemicals into ...

ALBANY— A New York court decision has bolstered a movement among towns determined to prevent the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within their borders.

Cathy McMullen leans on the white picket fence surrounding the restored farmhouse she moved into five years ago to escape fracking and shakes her head in sorrow. McMullen and her husband originally ...