The acreages that make up the Wayne National Forest in Southeastern Ohio are a patchwork of land parcels which lie in 12 Ohio counties. In the 1800s, the region was heavily logged to supply wood for ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Injection wells the state allowed to operate for more than six months after a state regulator deemed them an “imminent danger” to Athens County and its people now must stop pumping ...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated who appointed Chavez to the Ohio Senate. Republican Senators picked Chavez for an empty Senate seat in 2023. Injection wells owned ...

The record U.S. oil and gas boom may lie on a bedrock of aggressive sales and legal “compulsion,” a new study has found. Many Ohio landowners who ended up with fracked wells on their properties were ...

Five years ago, The Heartland Institute set out to correct some misperceptions about the hydraulic fracturing process (commonly known as “fracking”) that had gained traction in the opinions of a ...

From a spot on a muddy road in St. Tammany Parish near where Helis Oil & Gas wants to drill a 13,000-foot-deep oil well, only a low murmur of cars and trucks passing on nearby Interstate 12 was ...

It was the final regulatory hurdle for the first phase of the company’s plan, a 13,000-foot-deep “exploratory” well. Phase two would involve drilling a milelong horizontal shaft and then using a ...