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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An assessment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims hydraulic fracturing activities pose no threat to public drinking water. On Thursday, the EPA released a draft ...

PITTSBURGH — An ongoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study on natural gas drilling and its potential for groundwater contamination has gotten tentative praise so far from both industry ...

After a year-long review of the data, the EPA has concluded that fracking poses a systemic danger to clean groundwater. But it's not necessarily inherent to the technology of fracking itself. Human ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that hydraulic fracturing can impact drinking water in some instances, walking back earlier conclusions that the method’s impact on water supplies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...