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.
Rising US natural gas exports and soaring domestic demand for the power-plant fuel will lead to a shortage of fracking gear later this decade, according to the head of one the country’s top drilling ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the far reaches of Appalachian Ohio, DeepRock Disposal Solutions and other companies pump salty, hazardous waste from oil and ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Houston-based oil and gas company has drilled the first fracking well beneath Ohio’s preserved park and wildlife lands. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz told ...
A long-overdue rebellion is brewing in southeast Ohio — one directed squarely at the fracking wastewater industry, and at the ...
Let’s pretend there’s a giant switch we could flip that would shut down all the injection wells in Southeast Ohio. Environmental activists will, of course, jump for joy. Susan Vessels might even calm ...
The U.S. fracking boom is getting even bigger with advances in drilling techniques that are making oil and natural gas wells more productive. Each drilling rig in the Eagle Ford shale of south Texas ...
A crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale-based natural gas on June 25, 2012, in Zelienople, Pa. The Obama administration is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on ...