Fracking Wells State Map

Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Ill., will enroll its first fracking students this fall.

Tiny San Benito County provides a template for possible anti-fracking campaigns.

Staffers at the federal agency have praised a Texas Railroad Commission proposal aimed at curbing earthquakes possibly triggered by the high-pressure injection of oil and gas waste.

A group of Duke University scientists often accused of anti-fracking bias have published their most definitive research to date linking shale gas exploration with methane gas contamination of drinking water.

Localities are forced to deal with much of the problems associated with fracking, while states and the federal government rake in all the revenue.