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 ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — 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 ...

Three-fourths of the natural gas produced in this country comes from shale formations made accessible by fracking. So why is the EPA funding radical Big Green groups that are actively working day and ...

GRAND FORKS - Federal authorities plan to continue taking a hard look at the oil industry practice of hydraulic fracturing, a technology that is key to North Dakota's booming oil development. The ...

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 ...

Earthjustice led a suite of groups that petitioned EPA to craft new rules in August. Read The Hill’s August coverage of the petition here. Owens’s letter and a carefully worded statement from EPA ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used improper procedures and analytical methods in a report claiming hydraulic fracturing may have impaired groundwater quality near Pavillion, Wyoming, an ...

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 Environmental Protection Agency has weighed in on the fracking debate to say, for the first time, that the controversial practice may contribute to groundwater pollution. Fracking, or hydraulic ...

WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is looking at how best to address wastewater discharges produced by natural gas "fracking," and may revise regulations on ...

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 ...