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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A highly anticipated report by U.S. regulators buttresses calls for staying the course on fuel economy targets that automakers say are unworkable and want eased. Based on current trends, the average ...

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 ...

*Grace Galvin, a Communications Associate at WLF who received her JD from Charleston School of Law and is pursuing a Master’s in Journalism and Public Affairs at American University, contributed ...

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 ...

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In a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, a panel of scientists has disputed an EPA report's conclusion of fracking's safety as "inconsistent with the observations, data and levels of ...

U.S. EPA today abandoned its contentious assertion that hydraulic fracturing hasn’t caused “widespread, systemic” problems with drinking water as it released the final draft of its study on the ...

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 ...