CARRIZO SPRINGS — In this South Texas stretch of mesquite trees and cactus, where the land is sometimes too dry to grow crops, the local aquifer is being strained in the search for oil. The reason is ...

The engine of the boom that turned the United States into the world’s largest oil producer could see its already thin margins ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

DENTON, Texas Anti-fracking activists and campaigners backed by big oil and gas companies sparred outside of voting sites on the last day of early voting in a North Texas university town that s ...

Tom Phillips said his clients or others who object to fracking bans will probably follow a two-pronged legal strategy. A Colorado judge's decision to overturn a hydraulic fracturing ban that voters ...

(AP) George Mitchell leveraged a penchant for hard work, an appetite for risk and dogged persistence in the face of futility into a technological breakthrough that reshaped the global energy industry ...