A truck for Noble Environmental, the parent company of Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa., drives down a road on a rainy day. When John Quigley became the secretary of the ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting oil and gas by cracking underground rocks – is about to stage a comeback.

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The government committed in today’s King’s Speech to a permanent ban on fracking – but there’s no still detail on which ...

"We cannot allow the current administration to rob future generations of Californians of the clean air and water we have worked so hard to protect." ...

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Longtime residents of these historic ranchlands still remember the last time these plains filled up with water in a biblical inundation in 1998. That was before the fracking boom hit this region and ...