A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

A new method of hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale is one-third of the way toward being banned in New York state. The state Assembly approved legislation (A.8866) ...

Scientific and political disputes over drilling Marcellus shale for natural gas have focused primarily on the environmental effects of pumping millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep ...

PITTSBURGH — A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western ...

The discovery of the potential for thousands of tons of lithium to be extracted annually from wastewater generated by fracking in the Marcellus Shale leaves proponents of a green energy future at a ...

Researchers said there was no evidence that trace contaminants in drinking water wells came from “deep hydraulic fracturing shale horizons, underground storage tanks, well casing failures, or surface ...

Sen. Bob Casey, D-PA, is campaigning against hydraulic fracturing in natural gas drilling by introducing a bill to remove the long-standing exemption in the Safe Drinking Water Act that allows energy ...

Beneath the rolling hills of the Appalachian Basin, an ancient rock formation holds what some are calling America’s greatest untapped energy resource. The Marcellus Shale, formed over 400 million ...

Preface -- Abstract -- Introduction and background. Basic geology. Geologic framework ; Geologic structure ; Formation of black shale ; Marcellus boundaries -- Petroleum and natural gas formation.