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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday signed — and hailed — Utah’s latest natural-gas drilling plan as an environmentally sensitive leap toward energy security.

Flanked by cooperative representatives from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance at a pipeline...

From Texas to Colorado, there is growing evidence that oil and gas fields are leaking a wide range of chemicals — raising concern both in communities where drilling is taking place and in the industry.

There is, however, not sufficient data to know precisely what is coming out of the...

A plan to manage some of Colorado’s most prized national forest lands is being billed as a national model for how states and the federal government can work together even amid the rancorous political climate.

Reaction from the environmental community was less enthusiastic. While...

Several months after the Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft report suggesting hydraulic fracturing contaminated groundwater near Pavillion, proponents and critics of the practice have each weighed in with their own expert studies of the EPA’s findings.

Not surprisingly, the...