If you report on the environmental issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing and shale natural gas, you’ll hear a certain line from gas industry representatives over and over: there has never been a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a ...

Congress has ordered EPA to conduct a new fracking study and EPA is considering how broadly to construct it, since the agency's 2004 study that declared the technology safe was widely criticized as ...

Designed by the New York firm Tracy, Swartwout and Litchfield, the Byron White U.S. Courthouse in Denver, Colorado, pictured here, was renamed in 1994 after the newly retired supreme court justice ...

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural ...

Natural gas companies can keep drilling per usual, say the Environmental Protection Agency's new rules for hydraulic fracturing or, as everybody who's not a government employee refers to it, "fracking ...

The Environmental Protection Agency made its most direct statement linking groundwater pollution in Wyoming to fracking since residents filed their first complaints against the controversial drilling ...

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board produced this month a draft of proposed revisions to a 2015-issued report, and in it echoed Texas anti-fracking plaintiffs' concerns ...

The Environmental Protection Agency issued the first-ever national air pollution regulations for fracking on Wednesday. First proposed in July 2011, the final rules have been welcomed by environmental ...

DENVER— A federal appeals court ruled against Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency today, determining that the agency illegally approved a Colorado rule that allows the oil and gas industry to ...

EPA's final report on hydraulic fracturing's impact on drinking water contradicts its previous findings. Industry observers say political pressure is likely behind the U.S. Environmental Protection ...