San Francisco Chronicle: The last three years have seen an explosion in oil and gas drilling in the central and eastern United States. They`ve also seen a steep increase in the number of earthquakes rattling rattling those parts of the country.
And that`s probably not a coincidence, according to a new report in the journal Science.
In November, 2011, a series of earthquakes that some researchers link to water disposal wells from oil field operations damaged homes in Oklahoma.
The report from a U.S. Geological Survey...