A proposed amendment to rewrite the Safe Drinking Water Act that may be considered by the House Energy and Commerce Committee today could have “serious consequences” for hydraulic fracturing, a key ...

WASHINGTON — The American Petroleum Institute has joined other trade groups in endorsing a plan to voluntarily disclose chemicals in fracturing fluids used to produce natural gas from shale. A ...

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency asked nine "fracking" service providers Thursday to disclose the chemical components they use in the drilling technique for tapping reserves of natural ...

DENVER - Colorado will require energy companies to disclose the concentrations of all chemicals in hydraulic fracturing and also ask drillers to make public some information about ingredients ...

Oil and gas companies have been pressuring Ohio landowners to allow hydraulic fracturing on their property and are turning to state law to force compliance when there is resistance, according to a ...

Colorado oil and gas regulators are scheduled to take their first enforcement measures against companies for their suspected failure to fully comply with a year-and-a-half-old rule requiring ...

For Texas farmers and ranchers, clean land and water aren’t luxuries — they’re lifelines. But a new state law has farmers and environmental advocates raising serious concerns. Governor Greg Abbott has ...

Sorting out the competing claims regarding fracking (hydraulic fracturing) for natural gas sure is challenging. Many energy companies' management and their trade associations repeat the mantra that ...

The Stormont Executive has approved legislation that will permanently end petroleum exploration and licensing, including ...

Nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom directed it, California's oil and gas industry regulator kickstarted a process to outright ban hydraulic fracturing, the fossil fuel extraction method known ...