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.

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 ...

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 ...

The state of California, environmental organizations, and several tribal groups filed a lawsuit against the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke, seeking ...

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 ...

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 ...