Germany wants to end its virtual moratorium on fracking, Der Spiegel reports. “Parliamentarians from Angela Merkel’s governing center-right coalition of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union, and the pro-business Free...

Yoko Ono, Susan Sarandon and other celebrities recently toured a fracking site in Pennsylvania. They have been at the vanguard of an effort to keep fracking out of New York —  the practice has been banned since...

Yesterday, we published a presentation by oil analyst Arthur Berman suggesting the potential of fracking to extract fossil fuels buried in shale rock has been way overhyped. But there are many who would argue that the assumptions...

Forbes’ energy writer Chris Helman got an exclusive interview with George Phydias Mitchell, generally regarded as the inventor of modern hydraulic fracturing of shale rock. He told Helman that he definitely thinks the government needs to be...

GADCLuzerneCounty Click here to view the embedded video. A snippet from the Marcellus Shale Reality Tour video Sherry Vargson gave the group a tour of her farm in Granville Township, where Chesapeake Energy has drilled one well...