For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire. The ...

For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire.

NBCNEWS.COM - Could you imagine turning on the faucet in your kitchen or bathroom, and the water ignites, in some cases, creating a fireball right in your house? Believe it or not, it can happen, ...

CYCLONE, PA (WIVB) — Helen Dragonette moved to Cyclone, PA in McKean County a little more than two years ago. She says her water nightmare began about one year in. Dragonette says the stress of the ...

The fear of fracking has come to Britain, replete with worries about potential earthquakes and tap water tainted with natural gas that bursts into flames at the strike of a match.. Since a ban on the ...

Just three months after official operations started at a new bio-ethanol plant along the Delaware River, a gas leak brought Thanksgiving weekend traffic to a halt on Delaware Memorial Bridge and put a ...

But now, a team of Duke University scientists, analyzing shallow groundwater sources near active gas wells, has found that levels of flammable methane (CH4) contamination increased when those water ...