The new report by the EPA found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing causes widespread, systemic drinking water contamination. Tom Burke, the science adviser to the EPA, says each region has to make ...

PITTSBURGH — An ongoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study on natural gas drilling and its potential for groundwater contamination has gotten tentative praise so far from both industry ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

A natural gas drilling rig in Wyoming. The EPA says that fracking may have resulted in groundwater contamination in that state.National Geographic / Getty Images News If you report on the ...

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 report initially did not find “widespread, systemic impacts” on drinking water resources close to fracking sites. But the EPA’s Science Advisory Board responded in December, after the report was ...

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 ...

Designed by the New York firm Tracy, Swartwout and Litchfield, the Byron White U.S. Courthouse in Denver, Colorado, pictured here, was renamed in 1994 after the newly retired supreme court justice ...