PITTSBURGH (AP) — The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, found no evidence that chemicals or brine water from the gas drilling process moved upward to ...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 (Reuters) - Environmental groups on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging a plan to open large portions of federal land in central California to oil drilling, saying it did not ...

Young children living near oil and gas fracking sites had a higher chance of developing a form of leukaemia, according to a recent study in Pennsylvania. Fracking uses liquid chemicals pumped deep ...

PITTSBURGH - Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas hasn't contaminated drinking water wells in Arkansas, according to a new study, but researchers said the geology there may be more of a natural ...

From: Dr Peter Williams, Newbiggin, Malton. A REPORT of the Government’s Air Quality Expert Group was given to Ministers in 2015, but not published for three years until it quietly appeared on the ...

Perth activist Trish McAuliffe had a run-in with Stirling City Council in Perth's northern suburbs over a banner on her property advertising a public meeting about gas fracking. McAuliffe is a member ...

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 ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency issued the first-ever national air pollution regulations for fracking on Wednesday. First proposed in July 2011, the final rules have been welcomed by environmental ...