Exxon Mobil's chief executive called for disclosure of so-called fracking fluid during the IHS CERA energy conference last week in Houston. Fracking has become a hot-button issue in the United States ...

The groups that run the national fracking chemical registry FracFocus announced plans yesterday to make the site easier to use and less prone to errors. The groups that run the national fracking ...

Well, I guess we should have expected this. “This” being the study released on April 23 by Harvard University, which is highly critical of the FracFocus system for disclosure of hydraulic fracturing ...

The website used by hundreds of oil companies to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fall short of being a useful compliance tool, according to a new study. FracFocus, a voluntary ...

FracFocus, the website used by Exxon Mobil Corp. and other energy companies to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, fails as a compliance tool for the 11 states that rely on it, a Harvard ...

“FracFocus is just a fig leaf for the industry to be able to say they’re doing something in terms of disclosure,” said U.S. Representative Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat. DeGette, along with ...

For all the anger and divisiveness of the fracking debate, one nonprofit disclosure website may be something that almost everyone can agree on. FracFocus, a year-old site affiliated with coalitions of ...

Companies are shielding too much information from public view in an industry-backed database for disclosing chemicals used in oil and gas wells, engineers, environmentalists and energy experts told ...

A new Harvard report sharply criticizes the industry-backed website FracFocus, where companies voluntarily disclose the hydraulic fracturing chemicals they use in oil and natural gas production. The ...

New analysis spotlights the limitations of the EPA's broader study of fracking and water. Launched in 2011 and delayed repeatedly, the study was supposed to provide definitive answers to the public's ...