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 ...

President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior has proposed repealing a 2015 Obama-era rule governing hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands. The new rule would hand over the regulation ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court tossed out litigation on Thursday over whether the federal government can regulate fracking under a contentious Obama administration fracking rule. The 10th Circuit Court of ...

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 ...

The Trump administration intends to rescind a hotly contested Obama-era rule that aimed to tighten restrictions on hydraulic fracturing on public lands, court documents show. The US Department of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, a ...