The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — and no pair of bills demonstrates this more thoroughly than the proposed Ohio Senate Bill 219 and Ohio Senate Bill 294.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly 3 billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater have been injected underground in southeastern Ohio — pumped deep beneath the feet of residents who say they’ve had little say in ...

What is hydraulic fracturing? “Fracking” is a common name for hydraulic fracturing, which is a process that uses a ...

U.S. shale oil wells generate 27–45 million barrels of toxic wastewater every day, with shale gas adding billions more gallons annually. Traditional underground disposal is polluting groundwater, ...

Freeing oil and gas deposits from its shale, tight sand and coalbed methane coverings was first done with explosives in 1865. Using pressurized fluid and ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli used a tube of mercury to first measure pressure. In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp family ...

A case argued Tuesday before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court could test the reach of local efforts to challenge natural gas fracking. Concerned Residents of West Deer (CROWD), a local advocacy group, ...