New oil and gas fracking requests could impact Ohio's Egypt Valley Wildlife Area

Developers have requested more land for oil and gas fracking in the Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in eastern Ohio after the Ohio ...

State approves expansion of fracking on public lands over environmental concerns

COLUMBUS, Ohio – More than 9,000 new acres of state-owned land have been made available for fracking, as a result of a ...

Ohio commission opens up thousands of acres of public land for fracking

Ohio is opening up more than 8,200 acres of a wildlife area in southeastern Ohio and another 500 acres of Salt Fork State ...
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Does fracking cause higher radon levels in nearby homes? What the research shows

A possible correlation between fracking and radon has been studied several times, but whether there's a link remains an ...
Mahoning Matters

More than 8,500 acres of Ohio’s public land approved for fracking

More than 8,000 acres at Egypt Valley Wildlife Area and more than 500 acres at Salt Fork State Park were approved to be ...

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission approves fracking under Salt Fork State Park, Egypt Valley Wildlife area

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission selected the winning bids to lease oil and gas mineral rights underneath state property on Friday. These bids are going to EOG ...

Pa. firm that processed gas well fracking waste fined for violating environmental laws

WILLIAMSPORT — The state Department of Environmental Protection has assessed a $60,000 civil penalty on the Lycoming County ...
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Fracking makes the Texas oil and gas industry possible; it may also be harming the state

Fracking can be dated back to the 1860s but became dominant in US oil and gas production in the 2000s. Horizontal drilling ...
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Fracking for Natural Gas May Help Us Save Water

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...