A Kern County judge ruled Thursday that Gov. Gavin Newsom will remain a defendant in a trio of lawsuits brought against his administration by local oil producers arguing the governor overstepped his ...

trigger small earthquakes, and pollute the air. Which U.S. State Has the Most Fracking? Texas performs the most fracking activities. After Texas, rounding out the top five are Colorado ...

Gabrielle Kleber and Leonard Magerl, postdoctoral researchers at iC3, have discovered that Arctic glaciers are leaking ...

According to the USGS, fracking does cause small earthquakes, but the vast majority are microquakes and not felt by humans. While fracking does produce oil and natural gas, it also leaves two ...

But signs of an uptick in fracking-induced earthquakes are also apparent in the Texas oil patch. Last July, 60 tremors in one week — ranging from small to significant — shook the area around ...