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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to impose the first ever pollution regulations onto oil and natural gas companies that use hydraulic fracturing to drill. Commonly known as "fracking," the ...

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 report that also ...

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. But a draft report ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it wants to provide more public information about the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, and will look at ...

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board produced this month a draft of proposed revisions to a 2015-issued report, and in it echoed Texas anti-fracking plaintiffs' concerns ...

The Environmental Protection Agency made its most direct statement linking groundwater pollution in Wyoming to fracking since residents filed their first complaints against the controversial drilling ...

If true, this new technology could provide a forensic tool for litigants to prove—or disprove—that hydraulic fracturing has impacted a water supply. The New Year brings a renewed focus on ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft finding that it may have detected groundwater pollution resulting from a controversial technique that plays a huge role in modern oil and ...

PITTSBURGH — The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications ...