After a year-long review of the data, the EPA has concluded that fracking poses a systemic danger to clean groundwater. But it's not necessarily inherent to the technology of fracking itself. Human ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An assessment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims hydraulic fracturing activities pose no threat to public drinking water. On Thursday, the EPA released a draft ...

If true, this new technology could provide a forensic tool for litigants to prove—or disprove—that hydraulic fracturing has impacted a water supply. The New Year brings a renewed focus on ...

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 and ...

Amy Townsend-Small, an assistant professor of geology at University of Cincinnati, led a three-year monitoring study of private drinking wells in Carroll County, Ohio. The study, which was a graduate ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it is ready to halt the Obama administration’s emission rules for fracking by two years, instead of the initial 90-day stay that it had ...