For many, a cancer diagnosis is a deeply personal, private matter. But when Sandra Steingraber confronted a diagnosis of cancer that is rarely found in young women as a college biology student more ...

New research confirms fracking causes slow, small earthquakes or tremors, whose origin was previously a mystery to scientists. The tremors are produced by the same processes that could create large, ...

Fracking — the practice of drilling deep into the earth and cracking through layers of tight shale to extract natural gas — was in the spotlight during last night’s debate between Vice President ...

From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas wells have been fracked. Fracking, short for ...

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There are significant reasons that more than 250 health professionals, scientists and medical organizations called for a long-term fracking moratorium for the first time in a recent letter to Gov.

Does fracking make people sick? The jury is largely still out on that one. However, new info indicates that some claims about hydraulic fracturing’s reportedly significant health risks appear to have ...

The Government has commissioned a review of the latest scientific evidence on fracking, as the debate over UK energy supplies intensifies. There has been a moratorium on shale gas extraction since ...

PITTSBURGH -- In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts. But scientists say opponents sometimes mislead the public, too. Critics of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he’s fighting the kind of “politicized science that drove Froot Loops to the top of the food pyramid.” President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services has ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts. But scientists say opponents sometimes mislead the public, too. Critics of ...