New data released in late August by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows the United States, already the world’s leading producer of natural gas, is also now the world’s leading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fracking, shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, is set to become a cornerstone of President-elect Donald Trump's energy agenda.

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Liberal government is considering whether it should drop its long-standing ban on extracting the province’s large natural gas reserves as it looks for ways to boost its ...

Mike Soraghan reports on energy for Politico and E&E News. Marty Whiteman had enough natural gas under his hayfield to make him quite rich when the fracking boom swept through his rugged corner of ...

RICHMOND — Virginia is looking anew at regulations governing hydraulic fracking for natural gas, a drilling method that has spawned a gold rush for the energy resource in the U.S. and given rise to ...