Photo Credit:Fair Use [17 U.S.C. § 107] Fracking site with waste water ponds.
What Fracking Is Doing To The Earth - And To Our Bodies
21 Jun 2025 | Abstracted from National Geography
"Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in the United States increased 75 percent, while natural gas production increased 39 percent...Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique to extract fossil fuels - primarily methane"...a single well can use between 1.5 and 16 million gallons of water...One of the largest environmental impacts of fracking is the amount of methane it releases...the amount of smog produced by oil and gas drilling now exceeds the amount of smog from vehicles."
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