A recent News editorial, “We need much better data on fracking before setting off on a drilling boom,” suggested allowing one or two counties to become science experiments for fracking. Any fracking ...

Editor’s note: This story is the first of a two-part series. The second installment will appear in Monday’s newspaper. Near the end of a washboard gravel road climbing uphill about five miles off ...

Last week, NPR's Planet Money team got into the oil business. They bought and sold a hundred barrels of crude oil, following it from a field in Kansas to someone's gas tank. The oil business has ...