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 ...

DENVER— A federal appeals court ruled against Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency today, determining that the agency illegally approved a Colorado rule that allows the oil and gas industry to ...

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 ...

Neither side in the debate was celebrating the new Environmental Protection Agency rules announced last week to reduce air pollution from thousands of natural gas wells that undergo hydraulic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER — New data on air pollution from fracking wells in Colorado will be a big help in assessing whether the emissions are harmful to human health, state officials say. A three-year study released ...

Chemicals released into the air when natural gas is produced by hydraulic fracturing may pose a health risk to those living nearby, the Colorado School of Public Health said Monday. Researchers found ...

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 ...