That was Jim Womack, chairman of the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission, speaking to the Indy in December 2012. Depending on who you ask, Womack—a county commissioner in the fracking heartland of Lee ...

“Fracking” is an expletive in environmental circles. Yet the spirit of shale is creeping into a business with transformational potential for the energy transition. Schlumberger NV, the industrial ...

There’s a race raging in West Texas – not just for more oil, but for sand. A sand mining industry has emerged in West Texas that was virtually nonexistent a decade ago thanks to the rise of hydraulic ...

A Federal Court has rejected an attempt by environmental campaigners to derail development of the Northern Territory’s most ...

There was nothing lazy about a former government's decision to ban fracking in Nova Scotia, MLAs heard on Monday. Multiple ...

Fracking wastewater, a byproduct of natural gas extraction, contains significant lithium concentrations, a critical component in renewable energy technologies and electric vehicle batteries.

Demand is exploding for the massive amounts of sand used in fracking, creating a windfall for mines from Texas to Wisconsin but leading to worries about the health impacts of breathing silica dust.

A bill currently being negotiated in the Illinois House of Representatives would regulate large-scale hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- in the state, and the Missouri mining industry stands to ...

Timothy Nurkiewicz, chair of the WVU Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, conducts research in the Inhalation Facility. WVU has received $1.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to ...