SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators haven't approved permits for the controversial oil and gas extraction process known as fracking since February, effectively phasing out the process ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Bundaberg. Followed categories will be added to My News. The three licences, owned by Blue Energy, are each set to expire in December and then later next year in ...

California’s Geologic Energy Management Division is in the midst of finalizing regulations to ban fracking across the state, which will officially go into effect on October 1. The department submitted ...

In early April, two federal agencies canceled permits to drill eight new oil and gas wells that included the potentially polluting use of chemical fracking on land within the southeastern portion of ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday directed the state's top oil regulator to immediately begin crafting a regulation to halt new hydraulic fracturing permits by 2024. In addition to his order to ...

ECONOMY ― A natural gas company has surrendered its permits to pump water from a western Pennsylvania creek in a move welcomed by environmentalists fearful of rising industrial demand for surface ...

A PUBLIC consultation over whether or not to give environmental consent to an energy production firm to launch a fracking operation has been extended. The consultation over Third Energy's plan to ...

A view of Big Sewickley Creek downstream from PennEnergy’s proposed water withdrawal site shows erosion control (center) and a portion of the project workspace and parking area (gravel and log on ...

Image caption, Lancashire County Council will be asked to approve drilling in two sites at the end of the month The Environment Agency (EA) has granted energy firm Cuadrilla a permit to frack at one ...

THE Environment Agency has granted permits to allow a company to carry out fracking for shale gas in North Yorkshire. The government agency has awarded the environmental permits to allow Third Energy ...