EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the study is the first of its kind. In the debate over natural gas drilling, one side says not enough is known about hydraulic fracturing. The other side says there ...

Just as a new technique used to unlock once-inaccessible natural gas supplies is helping sparking a production boom in the U.S., the EPA is launching an environmental study that could end the party.

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General audit has given a 2017 agency study critical of glider truck emissions a ...

Hydraulic fracturing can contaminate drinking water but has not caused “widespread” impacts, U.S. EPA found in a highly anticipated study released today. Hydraulic fracturing can contaminate drinking ...

EPA’s late changes to fracking study downplay risk of drinking water pollution Early versions highlighted contaminated drinking water and vulnerabilities from fracking. The final version turned out ...

Nov. 11: This post has been updated. Five years ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assured the nation that the technology credited with opening vast new natural gas supplies was safe. Now ...

West Virginia poultry farmer Lois Alt didn't chicken out when the Environmental Protection Agency threatened her with fines of $40,000 per day, and even though the federal regulators eventually backed ...

This graphic shows the EPA's contamination plume and potential sites to test for contamination based on Mundell's findings. Graphic provided by Mundell and Associates A recent study commissioned by a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency's decision to ignore researchers' analysis of possible health benefits from reducing mercury pollution from power plants was criticized Tuesday by Democrats in ...

Drilling and operating oil and gas wells, especially unconventional wells, generates a significant amount of flowback and produced water that must be managed properly under federal and state ...