Legal loopholes that exempt fracking from elements of the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Environmental Protection Agency’s hazardous-waste laws are endangering surrounding communities, and ...

Sen. James Inhofe says there has never been "an instance of ground water contamination" caused by hydraulic fracturing -- fracking -- for oil and natural gas. But drilling operations that involve ...

In the process of hydrolic fracturing, chemically treated water is forced underground to break rock, which lets gas flow.

The greater proximity of fracking to drinking water and several well-publicized incidents of possible contamination spurred calls for the EPA examine its impact on water resources.

The fracking process has become highly charged. It started a boom of natural gas drilling and with it, an initial surge of reports of water contamination nearby.

Earlier this year, residents began accusing the fracking process for the contamination, claiming the fracturing allowed methane to travel up, outside the pipes, into water supplies.

The EPA’s investigation into water pollution near Pavillion, Wyo., produces landmark findings that could erode arguments used to defend safety of the gas drilling process.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a final report on the connection between hydraulic fracturing and contamination in drinking water. After stressing in June 2015 that there was ...

But the pits could not be blamed for contamination detected in the water monitoring wells 1,000 feet underground. That contamination, the agency concluded, had to have been caused by fracking.

For a process that’s driving America’s energy boom, the things we don’t know about fracking for oil and natural gas often seem to surpass that which we do. One thing we do know: It involves ...

But the pits could not be blamed for contamination detected in the water monitoring wells 1,000 feet underground. That contamination, the agency concluded, had to have been caused by fracking.

Fracking has contaminated drinking water supplies in North Dakota and elsewhere. Consumer Reports and Ensia explain how activists are fighting back against the water quality issues brought about ...