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At a teleconference this week, the panel said the wording of the EPA report was too vague to frankly be of any use in determining risk.

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 authority to regulate from Congressional authorization or delegation," U...

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 preliminary injunction by their opponents in a way that would have made the British punk band The C

The state will spend at least another $400,000 to provide water to Pavillion-area homeowners with polluted groundwater.

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.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday and will rule in writing later.

The Wyoming Supreme Court will hear arguments next month over whether the public has the right to obtain lists of chemicals used in the process of hydraulic fracturing.

A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water at a western Pennsylvania drilling site

A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to make public the lists of ingredients that go into hydraulic fracturing fluids.

A judge heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit that questions state officials' refusal to publicly release the ingredients in hydraulic fracturing chemicals that companies use to drill for oil and gas.