fracking

A bill released Monday sets an overall goal of making the state 100 percent reliant on renewable energy by 2050.

An environmental group is stepping up efforts to impose a moratorium on a natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. A legislative committee approved in November a bill that would place a 10-year moratorium on fracking, which involves blasting chemical-laden water deep into the ground...

A bill aimed at temporarily banning the natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is making its way through the Massachusetts Statehouse. The Legislature's Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has approved a bill that would create a 10-year moratorium on the technique in Massachusetts...