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 ...

President Obama this morning nominated physicist Ernest Moniz for energy secretary, to succeed outgoing secretary Steven Chu. Moniz, an MIT physicist, fits into President Obama’s stated ...

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 ...

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 ...