The fracking process creates environmental damage and can significantly impact local communities. For example, it can lead to ...

Five years ago, The Heartland Institute set out to correct some misperceptions about the hydraulic fracturing process (commonly known as “fracking”) that had gained traction in the opinions of a ...

An area environmental organization sees Pennsylvania’s new requirement that natural gas drillers reveal the chemicals in fracking fluids earlier in the drilling process as “long overdue.” A trade ...

Increasing transparency requirements around fracking activity and the specific fluids used in the process are associated with lower pollution levels from that activity, new research shows. A recent ...

Hydraulic fracturing no doubt has helped vastly expand oil and natural gas production across the U.S. and has been hailed as a solution to the U.S. energy crisis. There are tens of thousands of active ...

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...