Fracking

A new study found higher levels of radioactive materials in rivers and streams near municipal wastewater treatment plants that handled runoff from landfills that accept fracking waste from Pennsylvania.

A new water line in Dimock, PA will deliver something that residents of the rural Pennsylvania community have gone without for the last 14 years — a clean, reliable supply of drinking water.

Pennsylvania collected about $146 million from natural gas drillers last year in impact fees — the lowest amount paid since the fee started.The Public…

In 2007, Terry Engelder, a professor of geosciences at Penn State, calculated that trillions of cubic feet of natural gas could be recovered from the…

Nobody wants methane in their water.“They saw when it gets to about 28 milligrams per liter, it could start degassing to a point where it could explode,”…

This essay originally aired on July 28, 2016.Heat & Light is Jennifer Haigh’s third novel about the fictional town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania. It’s a place…

Russell Gold is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the author of “The Boom.” The book covers the history of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in…

Just over three months ago residents of a mobile home park in Central Pennsylvania were told they had to leave. The Riverdale Mobile Home Park, near…