Fracking

Chesapeake, like other energy companies, has been hammered by low energy prices.

The government would need to go through a series of legal processes before replacement, which includes receiving comment from the public.

Arguments will take place Thursday before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

Gaps in the data limited the EPA’s ability to fully assess the potential impacts or their severity on drinking water resources locally and nationally.

A judge has ruled that federal regulators lack the authority to set rules for hydraulic fracturing, dealing another setback to the Obama administration's efforts to tighten how fossil fuels are mined.

A federal judge on Wednesday agreed with two energy organizations, four states including Wyoming and an Indian tribe that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management overstepped its authority to implement new fracking rules on federal land.
"An administrative agency derives its existence and authorit…

U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl on Tuesday presided over eight hours of hearings about whether to block controversial new U.S. Bureau of Land Management regulations about hydraulic fracturing.
And a half-dozen hours before the rules were to go into effect Wednesday, Skavdahl eyed a proposed …

A state program that provides cisterns to homeowners with polluted groundwater in the Pavillion area could run out of money before everybody who wants a cistern gets one.