fracking

The Statehouse Podcast for Thursday, February 11th, 2016 includes coverage of legislation on transgender policy in South Dakota schools, Medicaid…

Officials with the Department of the Interior have released final standards for hydraulic fracturing activities on public and tribal lands. They say the…

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of extracting natural gas and oil out of shale rock in the ground. It's been in development for a few…

South Dakota sand won’t be used for North Dakota fracking. In hydraulic fracturing high pressure water and chemicals mixed with some sand are pumped…