In May, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to double the capacity of Canada’s electricity grid by 2050, using natural gas in the name of “powering Canada strong.” Almost all Canadian natural ...

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.

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 ...

The fracking boom remade the U.S. economy and global energy markets. It also left behind a complicated legacy of winners, losers and lasting political fights.

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

That is what Phelim McAleer’s new film FrackNation offers and what so many in the debate over hydraulic fracturing lack. Hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, is an unnecessarily ...

Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina As Solar and Batteries Dominate in Texas, Republican Lawmakers Consider Natural Gas Minimums Coming to Some of ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. One morning in late September, on the shores of Lake Erie, Toby Rice took the stage before a room of fracking executives and gas industry types working ...