The Better Path Coalition is disturbed about a new watchdog report that found the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allowed oil and gas companies to use toxic chemicals during the fracking process, group co-founder Karen Feridun told Sputnik.
The leadership of the Pawnee Nation, a Native American tribe, on Friday filed a lawsuit against multiple Oklahoma oil companies, claiming that their operations caused a recent earthquake.
Victoria will become the first Australian state to ban fracking, the controversial method of extracting coal seam gas, the state government said in a statement on Tuesday.
Around 7 million people in the US live in areas at risk of damaging, human-induced earthquakes that are often linked to fracking, a report said Monday.
British Columbia's energy regulator has confirmed that a 4.6 magnitude earthquake in northeast B.C. in August of this year was caused by a nearby fracking operation.