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Fracking

Red and white trucks flank a tall drilling well pictured against the sky
Environment
Trying to measure fracking’s toll on human health
City Council of Arlington, Texas
Environment
Racial justice movement spurs a Texas city council to bar fracking expansion
Kenton Ganster, left, stands with his mother, Kathleen, with a drilling rig used for fracking visible in the background off of the Rachel Carson Trail north of Pittsburgh.
Environment
Drilling rigs used in fracking found along nature trail irk some hikers
Oil wells dot the rural, agricultural landscape surrounding Williston, North Dakota. The Bakken formation has become one of the largest sources of new oil production in the US.
Economics
The ‘Wild West on steroids’ cools off
After an extremely warm first half of the year, global surface temperatures were heading for a third-straight record warm year in 2016. This NOAA map from December shows record warm temperatures (red) and record cold (blue) through the first 11 months of
Environment
2016 brought more record temperatures. So what climate course will the US and Trump set in 2017?
Ethane cracker Singapore
Environment
Making the plastics found everywhere in modern life comes with a cost: more pollution
This is a view of vineyards on Seneca Lake in New York.
Economics
The war over wine, water and fuel in New York’s Finger Lakes
Mick Luber, Ohio
Business
Natural gas companies are using hardball tactics to expand their network of pipelines
Gas compressor station
Environment
Compressor stations are a new flashpoint in the debate over natural gas extraction
Gas compressor station
Environment
Compressor stations are a new flashpoint in the debate over natural gas extraction
A gas flare burns at a fracking site in rural Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Environment
Falling natural gas prices are bad news for some US communities
Injection of wastewater into disposal tanks is linked to man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma
Environment
Are we causing earthquakes in Oklahoma?
Under the new federal fracking rules, wastewater must be managed onsite and in closed tanks, not in the open pits seen here.
Environment
Fracking is about to change, and almost no one is happy about it
Greenpeace activists sit chained in front of Chevron's drilling site for shale gas during a protest in the village of Pungesti, Romania.
Conflict
American and Russian energy giants battle over a small Romanian town
Fracking in PA
Environment
Fracking often gets blamed for water problems, but it’s not a clear cut case
Fracking tower in PA
Environment
Here’s another complication for fracking — radioactive waste
Greenpeace set up a faux fracking operation outside the country home of British Prime Minister David Cameron this week to protest a government plan to allow fracking companies to drill under private property without the owners' permission.
Environment
Greenpeace decides to create a fracking well — under David Cameron’s home
Fracking site in North Dakota
Environment
Fracking went on trial and a Texas family beat the industry
Fracking site in North Dakota
Environment
Fracking went on trial and a Texas family beat the industry
Isabelle Levy
Environment
Will the French ban on fracking crack under industry pressure?