California Gov. Gavin Newsom cracked down on oil producers Tuesday, halting approval of hundreds of fracking permits until independent scientists can review them and temporarily banning another ...

California regulators haven’t approved permits for the controversial oil and gas extraction process known as fracking since February, effectively phasing out the process ahead of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ...

Deputy Attorney General Clint Woods argued in Barmann's courtroom Thursday morning that there is no dispute the state oil and gas supervisor at the time denied fracking permits, not the governor, and ...

California’s Geologic Energy Management Division is in the midst of finalizing regulations to ban fracking across the state, which will officially go into effect on October 1. The department submitted ...

Nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom directed it, California’s oil and gas industry regulator kickstarted a process to outright ban hydraulic fracturing, the fossil fuel extraction method known ...

In early April, two federal agencies canceled permits to drill eight new oil and gas wells that included the potentially polluting use of chemical fracking on land within the southeastern portion of ...

Vice President Kamala Harris was questioned about her stance on fracking during Tuesday’s presidential debate between her and former President Donald Trump. Harris said that she wouldn’t ban fracking, ...

Jul. 9—California's top oil regulator, acting ahead of a proposed statewide ban on fracking, this week denied a series of applications to use the controversial oilfield technique in western Kern — a ...

State oil and gas regulators have granted permits for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, for the first time since last summer. The California Geologic Energy ...

A view of Big Sewickley Creek downstream from PennEnergy’s proposed water withdrawal site shows erosion control (center) and a portion of the project workspace and parking area (gravel and log on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado likely will need to rewrite its plan to reduce ozone pollution after a federal appeals court this week determined it was illegal for the state to ...