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 ...

A letter by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and signed by his counterparts in 12 other energy-producing states tells the EPA it should not allow threats of litigation by six Northeast states to ...

The science board of the US Environmental Protection Agency is pushing the regulator to revise a draft report which found no evidence of widespread impacts to drinking water from hydraulic fracturing.

A final Environmental Protection Agency report on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water may be getting more attention for what it doesn't say than what it does. The agency on ...

(Bloomberg News) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released 622 documents related to its study of water contamination tied to hydraulic fracturing in Pavillion, Wyoming, as Republican lawmakers ...

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural ...

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans Thursday to write new standards governing how energy companies dispose of wastewater from natural gas drilling sites — including fluids ...

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 Science Advisory Board (SAB) of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told EPA chief Gina McCarthy in a letter that the draft report was comprehensive but was lacking in “certain critical ...

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency asked nine "fracking" service providers Thursday to disclose the chemical components they use in the drilling technique for tapping reserves of natural ...