Harris promised early on in her initial 2019 bid for the presidency to ban the practice if she were elected, and has since recanted that position. Tuesday’s debate moderators questioned the switch. “I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" - site in Tyler County, W.Va., in 2021. Photo by Howard Gorrell. If you watched the ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday acknowledged a shift in her position on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, ...

North Yorkshire Council says a decision will be confirmed in the near future on the Burniston plan.

Plans for a "mini fracking" site in Burniston near Scarborough have been rejected by North Yorkshire Council following local ...

Mexico is hard-pressed to reduce its natural gas imports from the United States. Today, President Sheinbaum presented a multidisciplinary group of Mexican scientists tasked with assessing whether ...

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has instructed state-run oil company Ecopetrol to cancel its joint venture with the US-based Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) due to environmental concerns. The venture, ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking - a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells - may be to ...