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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...