The EPA has worked mightily to demonstrate that oil and natural gas production from hydraulic fracturing causes water contamination, yet it has struck out again. Although it has backed away from other ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...

Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, have claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris is an extreme liberal who wants to ban fracking and cares more about climate change than the economy.

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo prohibited high-volume fracking in New York in 2014 citing health concerns, particularly over water contamination and air pollution.

Five years after a Pennsylvania grand jury made eight recommendations to protect public health and the environment from fracking, the state has largely failed to follow through, five environmental ...

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(AP) -- 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 gas ...

Colorado faces a difficult choice: transition off fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy or continue to jeopardize our environment and health. But transition inevitably comes with economic and ...

Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, has transformed the United States into the Saudi Arabia of natural gas — but not in New York, where foolish politicians like Gov. Hochul stubbornly ...