A federal lawsuit alleges New York's fracking ban violates the Fifth Amendment rights of a father and son who own land in ...

Environmental organizations have petitioned a federal court to join New York State in defending its bans on natural gas extraction, citing potential health risks and environmental impacts.

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

Allegheny County Council on Tuesday voted to override a veto on a bill that bans new fracking leases on county parkland. The override marked the first time in Allegheny County Executive Rich ...

Westchester County may be a day trip from the rock formations of the Marcellus Shale region along the state's southern tier and Pennsylvania border -- and all that natural gas locked deep inside -- ...

Tom Phillips said his clients or others who object to fracking bans will probably follow a two-pronged legal strategy. A Colorado judge's decision to overturn a hydraulic fracturing ban that voters ...

The towns of Dryden, in Tompkins County, and Middlefield, in Otsego County, changed their zoning laws to ban fracking in recent years after energy companies started acquiring local leases to drill.