NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with environmentalist, Bill McKibben, and public relations specialist, Frank Maisano, about opposition to industrial development projects like fracking and data centers.

Eliza Griswold and published in 2018. It examines the social, environmental, and economic impact of the natural gas fracking industry on a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania. Amity and Prosperity ...

Colombia wants to reverse its fracking ban and draw $4 billion in oil investment, but permitting delays and security risks ...

Homes near some fracking sites had saltier water and more radium, but every one of 91 samples stayed under the federal limit. A homeowner who pulls water straight from a well can’t ask a treatment ...

Pennsylvania ranks second in U.S. natural gas production, accounting for about one-fifth of U.S. output in 2024, and has one of the most extensive histories of energy extraction in the country. A team ...

A public health study found that Colorado children living within eight miles of an oil and gas well had an increased risk of developing leukemia, and the study’s authors determined current setbacks ...

It’s not just a matter of harming the interests of well owners. There’s also the threat to the water supply. The Buckeye Environmental Network, which has been spreading concern about injection wells, ...

Transnational corporations are heavily pressuring Mexico to open up its energy sector as part of the official review this year of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. As La Jornada reported, Larry Rubin, ...

ARLINGTON, TEXAS — In early December, drilling resumed near Mother's Heart Learning Center. Newly installed gas wells dot property at 2020 S. Watson Road, less than one mile from the day care. One day ...