Environmental protections built into natural gas drilling legislation that passed the state Senate on Tuesday convinced some environmental groups to endorse the bill with reservations even as others rejected it wholesale as a giveaway to the gas industry. The environmental...

About 20 miles from the spot in Pennsylvania where the oil industry was born 150 years ago, Howard Weltner and his neighbors pay every day for its offspring. On a hilltop above their Venango County village of Belmar, there are...