Oil and gas drilling in highly populated residential areas will require more protections for neighbors under new instructions announced Tuesday by the state Department of Environmental Quality's ...

The well pad would be one of two that Ursa Resources hopes to locate along with an associated pipeline corridor within the unincorporated residential development of Battlement Mesa, home to several ...

GATES MILLS-- Village Council's new gas well safety committee is at work, even though it hasn't met yet, but drilling continues as the village and others try to intervene in proposed state legislation ...

A positive outcome of the furor over well-drilling in Detroit’s northern suburbs may be legislation returning some regulation from the state to local governments. If it wins support. If the drilling ...

At its Sept. 16 meeting, the Shelby Township Board of Trustees unanimously passed an amended six-month moratorium on oil, gas and other hydrocarbon exploration and related extraction activities within ...

A well in neighboring North Royalton sprung an oil leak in 2011, spilling 200 gallons of crude into Chippewa Creek. North Royalton and Broadview Heights have also in recent years dealt with gas ...

Nevada’s top water regulator has ordered a halt to residential well drilling in Pahrump in hopes of slowing the decline of the community’s overtaxed groundwater supply. The unprecedented order issued ...

Roger Alter has lately spent a lot of time talking about water. First there was the time he spent with a neighbor trying to find a company to drill deeper wells for their homes east of Visalia, as ...

LONGMONT — Longmont has a new set of oil and gas regulations, including a restriction on drilling in residential zones. That restriction survived a 4-3 City Council vote Tuesday night, shortly before ...

Marin property owners with land in state’s “coastal zone” must now notify neighbors if they seek to drill a well on their property for agricultural or residential use. The rule was at the center of a ...

An oil and gas firm this week will plug a well operating near the intersection of U.S. 287 and Dillon Road in Lafayette prior to the likely development of nearly 700 homes on the parcel in coming ...