In 1976, Mary Ellen McConnell, a “concrete city kid,” moved from Bethesda, Maryland, to the verdant hills and river valleys of Clearville, Pennsylvania. She fell in love with rural life and settled on ...

Since former Gov. Ed Rendell opened state-owned lands for drilling, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania has generated over $1 billion in revenue from fracking, which involves horizontal drilling into ...

Clinicians urged to be aware of fracking-related health problems Chemical contamination, community disruption and negative psychological effects among health problems associated with hydraulic ...

A new University of Chicago study examining Medicare claims found older adults living near fracking sites in Pennsylvania were more likely to be hospitalized for cardiovascular diseases than those who ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. This article originally appeared on ...

There's an old saying that I won't spell out completely, but which most readers will certainly have heard at least once in their lives, to wit: "Don't sh-- where you eat." It is an all-purpose warning ...

FACTS ABOUT THE CANDIDATES CLAIMS. FRACKING IS A MAJOR INDUSTRY IN PENNSYLVANIA, CREATING THOUSANDS OF JOBS, BUT ALSO CAUSING CONCERNS ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH. VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of extracting natural gas by blasting underground rock with water, sand and chemicals. People are protesting its use, saying fracking causes “yellowed ...

It didn't seem possible, but fracking's terrible public relations problems just got a whole lot worse. The pollution from fracking sites could be worse than we thought, and state efforts to protect ...