MIDLAND — On any given day, energy companies across the vast Permian Basin in West Texas inject millions of gallons of water into the dry brown earth, breaking up layers of rock on the hunt for crude ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Injection wells the state allowed to operate for more than six months after a state regulator deemed them an “imminent danger” to Athens County and its people now must stop pumping ...

Water is a key feature of energy production, both as an inconvenient byproduct and an essential input for fracking. Select ...

CRANE COUNTY, Texas — There’s one thing you won’t find at the Antina Ranch: cows. That’s because test showed Antina’s main water well was tainted with contaminants such as benzene, chloride, sulfate ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a ...

Chemicals found in wells near the site of a 2022 incident in Freeport Township indicate a link to nearby fracking activity, according to a recent report by researchers from the University of ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday in a federal lawsuit in which two northeastern Pennsylvania families allege that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp contaminated their well water with ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Fracking has burst back on to the national stage in the presidential election contest ...

An alfalfa garden patch grows at the Texas Pacific Water Resources research and development project site outside of Midland. Researchers watered the alfalfa with cleaned produced water from a fracking ...

This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here. MIDLAND On any given day, energy companies ...

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