Over at DeSmogBlog, Steve Horn has alarming news about ExxonMobil-written language making its way into Obama's proposed fracking regulations: On May 16, the Obama Interior Department announced its ...

Last week's media coverage of the Obama administration's newly-proposed fracking rules focused so heavily on how drilling companies would have to disclose the chemicals they use that it largely ...

Even when he's creating oversight bodies specifically to manage fracking, President Obama still apparently hates using that word. On Friday, the president signed an executive order creating a ...

The fracking boom remade the U.S. economy and global energy markets. It also left behind a complicated legacy of winners, losers and lasting political fights.

President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister JustinTrudeau will clamp down even more on methane emissions from oil andnatural gas wells as part of a broader effort to tackle globalwarming. Obama ...

The Obama-era rule targets the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which has made the U.S. the world's leading producer of energy. The Trump administration will repeal the rule on Friday.

A federal judge in Wyoming has struck down the Obama administration's regulations on hydraulic fracturing, ruling that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management doesn't have the authority to establish rules ...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday moved to exert more control over the injection of diesel fuel deep underground to extract oil and natural gas, its first foray into addressing the ...