Over the last five years, men working in the oil and gas extraction industry have mysteriously dropped dead on the job. Several of the deaths were determined to be a result of cardiovascular failure, a cause the coroner deemed natural. However, new information reveals the workers likely passed away after inhaling noxious vapors while sampling […]

Drinking water in West Texas may be laced with extremely harmful chemicals linked to brain cancer, leukemia and birth defects, according to health officials warning of a potential catastrophe. Heavy rains triggered flooding across the Lone Star State in recent months, causing an array of noxious fracking chemicals to be washed into local waterways. Emergency […]

New research from the University of Texas at Austin suggests that fracking may have triggered one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in East Texas. The quake struck the small town of Timpson, located about 30 miles northeast of Nacogdoches, on May 17, 2012. It was reported to have been felt as far as Shreveport, […]

It’s no secret that California is prone to earthquakes. In 2008, researchers predicted the Golden State has a 99 percent chance of having a magnitude 6.7 or larger quake before the year 2040, and a 46 percent chance of having a magnitude 7.5 or greater quake. To put that into perspective, the infamous earthquake that […]