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Quick Bullets: Fracking is a method of increasing the amount of oil and gas that can be extracted from a reservoir. Fracking, combined with...

As oil prices soar, the pace of fracking in western North Dakota has seen an uptick, though the drilling of new wells remains sluggish.

The Kern County, California, Board of Supervisors approved a lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom over his administration’s rejection of fracking permits.

Federal Judge Paul Diamond United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania rejected a lawsuit filed by two Pennsylvania state senators and four local governments in the oil-rich Marcellus Shale region.

The flaring of natural gas has declined since the the early fourth quarter of 2020 despite a significant recovery in new oil and gas development and production.

A bill to ban fracking and other non-traditional oil-extraction techniques in California failed to get out of committee on April 13.

Fracking activity in the United States has almost rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, says a March 2021 Rystad Energy Report.

Banning fracking ignores sound science in favor of a false choice between environmental quality and natural gas. With the increase of natural gas consumption, particularly in power generation, the U.S. has reduced carbon dioxide emissions to their lowest levels in a generation.

The Delaware River Basin Commission voted to ban natural gas drilling within the Delaware River watershed.

A report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy says banning fracking would cost millions of jobs, result in trillions of in lost gross domestic product and labor income, dramatically increase gasoline prices and electricity bills, and increase emissions of carbon dioxide and various pollutants.