Hydraulic fracturing can contaminate drinking water but has not caused “widespread” impacts, U.S. EPA found in a highly anticipated study released today. Hydraulic fracturing can contaminate drinking ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a study on the water quality impacts of large animal feeding operations before deciding whether to tighten rules for them. In a plan released Friday ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency is set to reapprove several neonicotinoid pesticides now in use across hundreds of millions of acres despite evidence from rodent studies of their ...

The Obama White House was engaged in the “messaging” for last year’s rollout of U.S. EPA’s big study on the safety of hydraulic fracturing, records show. The Obama White House was engaged in the ...

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 ...

EPA study finds that U.S. public schools with the highest potential exposure risk to air toxics have higher proportions of disabled Latino, Hispanic, and Asian children Children are at greater risk ...

A new study from Johns Hopkins University found people living near petrochemical plants in Louisiana face higher cancer risks, up to 11 times higher than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...