A new study reveals that elderly residents living near hydrofracking wells and other unconventional oil and gas mining operations face an increased risk of death.
A JAMA editorial calls for the medical community to closely follow the potential health effects of hydraulic fracturing operations.
The CDC warns that workers at fracking sites may be exposed to high levels of benzene, but can do little to protect them due to oil and gas industry exemptions…
Several lawsuits have recently been filed blaming the energy industry for a series of damaging earthquakes which scientists blame on hydraulic fracturing.
A controversial natural gas mining technique, known as hydraulic fracturing, could pose a serious environmental risk according to a special government task force’s report.
The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen is pressing lawmakers to close loopholes that allow energy companies to contaminate drinking water supplies through a controversial gas extraction process known as hydraulic…
The State of Maryland plans to file a hydraulic fracturing lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy Corporation over a recent release of gas mining fluids into the state’s water supply.
Radioactive wastewater is being dumped into the drinking water of Pennsylvania and other states by a controversial drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, according to recently obtained documents…
