
Hope for Water Woes in Fracking Technologies
For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario.

For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario.

California may be on the cusp of an oil fracking boom along its 1,750-square-mile Monterrey Shale Formation, which is potentially the richest shale oil reserve in the United States.

Another 100-plus tanker oil train carrying crude from North Dakota’s Bakken Field derailed Tuesday morning, causing an explosive fire near the West Virginia state capital of Charleston. Local residents were forced to flee their homes in frigid weather as firefighters battled the blaze.