Fracking is shaking things up — literally. Fracking, along with the disposal of toxic fracking waste through underground injection control wells, has been linked to human-caused earthquake activity.

Newspaper articles and television reports make hydraulic fracturing appear to be a new technology that pollutes drinking water, causes flames to leap from kitchen faucets, and constitutes the next ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. There is an interesting dynamic going on in the final days of the ...

WASHINGTON — Hydraulic fracturing has a low risk for inducing earthquakes that can be felt by people, but underground injection of wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing and other energy ...

Earthquakes triggered by fluids injected deep underground, such as during the controversial practice of fracking, may be more common than previously thought, a new study suggests. Fluid injections ...

The original acid-gas injection project near DCP Midstream’s Artesia, NM, gas plant started up in November 2003 and consisted of drilling an injection well and installing an acid-gas injection ...