The fracking industry likes to call its product “natural gas,” but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater. A new study published ...

After dozens of childhood cancer cases surfaced in Southwestern Pennsylvania in 2019, state health officials embarked on a multi-study project to determine whether the region’s boom in oil and gas ...

This story is published in partnership with DeSmog, the climate investigations site. As Janice Blanock peered through the chain link fence running along a popular bike and walking trail near her home ...

Since former Gov. Ed Rendell opened state-owned lands for drilling, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania has generated over $1 billion in revenue from fracking, which involves horizontal drilling into ...

A new study links fracked gas wells in western Pennsylvania with cases of cancer, asthma and birth problems. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found children who lived closer to fracking ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled western Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages ...

The potential adverse health effects of fracking keep piling up. Newly published research shows that people who live close to natural gas extraction sites have a higher risk of childhood lymphoma and ...

It turns out that despite Dr. John O’Connor’s decade-old claim that his town of Fort Chipewyan in Canada had absurdly high cancer rates due to oil sands, the facts tell a different story. A report ...

Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled western Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased ...

When Rifle resident Jose Lara, 42, began working for Rain for Rent about a half-dozen years ago, his job required climbing inside tanks to power-wash them after they'd been emptied of hydraulic ...