Increased natural gas prices triggered a jump in fracking activity in Pennsylvania in the second quarter of 2025, a new analysis by the Independent Fiscal Office shows. The number of new wells fracked ...

In 2013, when the Appalachian fracking rush was still in its early days, then President Barack Obama extolled its benefits in his State of the Union address. Not only had natural gas already helped to ...

Concerns over artificial intelligence and the proposed Homer City Redevelopment Project brought students together Wednesday ...

Two neighboring townships in a heavily fracked part of Pennsylvania are seeking federal and state funding for a public water system to replace private wells that have been contaminated for more than ...

In the summer of 2022, John Stolz got a phone call asking for his help. This request—one of many the Duquesne University professor has fielded—came from the Center for Coalfield Justice, an ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump posted that Vice President Kamala Harris had "lost Pennsylvania" due to her past position on fracking, but the polls show a neck-and-neck race in the ...

A pioneering public health researcher has made an indelible impact on regulating the oil and gas industry's environmental impacts, especially when it comes to hydraulic fracturing — also known as ...