Illinois is the next state on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)'s target list for putting the oil industry's interests ahead of the public interest.

As long as it is cheaper for companies to pay any fines that may result from regulatory violations than make the necessary operational changes, regulations cannot protect communities from the environmental and health impacts of fracking.

The oil and gas industry has propagated a vision that fracking unleashes vast amounts of gas which then flows relatively steadily for decades. But a growing mountain of evidence suggests that nothing could be further from the truth.

Since late 2009, there's been a slowly-growing wave of attacks from the unconventional oil and gas industry on media outlets that cover the controversies surrounding hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and other shale gas practices.

By Joshua Schneyer and Brian Grow GAYLORD, Michigan June 26 (Reuters) - A Michigan land owner who alleges he was jilted by two of Nort...

Given radioactive wastewater, earthquakes, and flammable tap water, one might think that drilling and fracking could not possibly have any more dirty secrets. But here's the biggest secret of all: it's expensive.

CANTON, Pa. (AP) — State environmental regulators say methane had to be vented from a pair of private drinking wells near a northern Pennsylvania na...

May 10 (Reuters) - A blowout at a Chesapeake Energy Corp natural gas well in Wyoming in April was caused by a mechanical failure at the wellhead, a...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing a compensation program at Chesapeake Energy Corp. that created potential conflic...

* CEO says deeply sorry for distractions of the past two weeks * CEO says there has been a lot of misinformation * Shar...

(Corrects date in 6th paragraph to June 2014 instead of June 2012) * Co to end Founders Well program 18 months early * ...