Ohio Oil & Gas Commission approves fracking under Salt Fork State Park, Egypt Valley Wildlife area

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission selected the winning bids to lease oil and gas mineral rights underneath state property on Friday. These bids are going to EOG ...

Upper Burrell residents notified of surveying for fracking lateral lines

Upper Burrell will soon undergo surveying for lateral fracking lines that could connect to natural gas company EQT’s Hermes ...

Quiet Power: 20-Ton FlexVolt Log Splitter

Like many other log splitters, the 20-Ton FlexVolt Max is towable. At 450 pounds, it can be towed by virtually any vehicle ...

‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside

In one corner, clean energy champion Ed Miliband. In the other, residents – and Reform politicians – outraged at plans for more large-scale solar farms in Lincolnshire than anywhere else in the UK ...
Engadget

Valve's Steam Machine launches in 2026: Everything we know so far

The Steam Machine is back from the dead. Not as a Valve-supported program for manufacturers to create living room PCs, but instead as a home console sibling to the Steam Deck. Valve introduced its ...
The Telegraph

Wood River bans cigarette, vape vending machines, cuts liquor licenses

The Wood River City Council approved an ordinance banning cigarette or vape vending machines during its Monday meeting. City Manager Steve Palen said there is currently one licensed in the city, and ...
Futurism

Site of Elementary School Was Sprayed With Radioactive Fracking Waste, Worker Warns

Nearly 500 elementary school children in Texas play on fields where a whistleblower says he once spread tons of radioactive fracking waste — a noxious hell-brew he believes melted the bones in his own ...
Rolling Stone

The Label That Launched Taylor Swift Is Changing Hands — Again

Change is once again afoot at Big Machine Records. The label’s founder, Scott Borchetta, announced on Thursday that he’s exiting HYBE America, which acquired Big Machine Label Group (BMLG) as part of ...
USA Today

Wood storks to be taken off the endangered list

A pair of naturalists spent weeks in the wilds of South Florida in the 1930s, braving alligators and snakes to find and photograph wetland and wading birds like the gangly wood stork. Unlike many of ...
Polygon

Steam Machine delayed as Valve revisits pricing

The Steam Machine has been delayed, Valve announced in a blog post Wednesday evening, citing the rising cost of computer components. So much for that AMD prediction about an early 2026 release date!
Bloomberg L.P.

Fracking Goes Global

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...