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Unconventional oil refers to crude oil extracted through new methods like hydraulic fracturing and oil sands mining. Explore ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking - a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells - may be to ...

Environmentalists will gather Saturday (June 21) in Covington for "Frackstock,'' an all-afternoon, anti-fracking rally at the Tammany Trace trailhead. Sponsored by the Sierra Club, the event begins ...