Dozens of people voiced their concerns Wednesday morning about frac sand mining in Houston County. A final public hearing regarding a mineral extraction ordinance, which would impose tighter rules and ...

Republican state legislators in Wisconsin want to make it easier for companies to mine the “frac sand” under the state’s farmland and forests and head off more stringent regulation on the booming and ...

Five years into the exploration for natural gas in the Fayetteville Shale, most Arkansans know about the hydraulic fracturing process and its links to environmental havoc, including poisoned wells and ...

GREENFIELD, Wis. — Since the arrival of a mine that supplies sand to hydraulic fracturing sites in distant shale fields, this tiny township has gained a new dump, recycling center, snowplow and salt ...

In Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, industrial sand, known as “frac sand,” mining has created thousands of high-paying jobs. Industrial sand mines employ engineers, electricians, welders, chemists, ...

CLAYTON COUNTY - The growing demand for frac sand - mined primarily in Wisconsin and Minnesota but also in northeast Iowa - threatens human health, the environment and local economies, according to a ...

A new report on frac-sand mining suggests that Americans living near desirable silica deposits should brace themselves for a long and lasting boom — not just in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where the bulk ...

Ken Schmitt of the Town of Howard’s house rumbles three to four times a week as a result of the frac sand mining, he said. Schmitt, a long-time critic of Wisconsin’s growing frac sand mining industry, ...

A proposed silica sand mining project in southeastern Minnesota could change the nature of the industry in the state. Or not. Nobody is quite sure what to expect at the end of February, when Minnesota ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Your Feb. 16 editorial “Frac sand mining: Regulation decision should rest in local hands” was very ...

ST. PAUL (WCCO)-- Hundreds of voices on both sides of the frac sand mining debate crammed into a state capitol hearing room. There were so many, in fact, that a second room was set aside to ...