Longtime residents of these historic ranchlands still remember the last time these plains filled up with water in a biblical inundation in 1998. That was before the fracking boom hit this region and ...

Special fracking sand is just one of the items transported by truck into and out of the shale fields. Fracking may be a boom opportunity for trucking fleets carrying water, sand, chemicals and other ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

All along the highway that leads into this city in West Texas, the rows of black pump jacks seem endless, bobbing up and down as they pull crude oil from beneath the parched scrub desert. The pump ...

The controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing has created an oil and gas boom around the country. In states like Texas, Pennsylvania and Colorado, there's been heated debate about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blake Muir and niece Jennifer Sullivan look over a tank battery an Inside Climate News analysis found would be inundated in a ...

Longtime residents of this area's historic ranchlands vividly remember the last time these plains filled with water, in a biblical inundation in 1998. But that was before the fracking boom that hit ...