California oil and gas regulators have formally released their plan to phase out fracking three years after essentially halting new permits for the practice. The California Geologic Energy Management ...

Southern Ohio discovers toxic fracking wastewater migrating from deep injection wells, contaminating local groundwater. Fragmented state-level regulations and undisclosed fracking fluid compositions ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...

Plugging Away at the Millions of Derelict Oil and Gas Wells in the US $370 Million Payout US Senators Investigate $370 Million IRS Payout to Cheniere Energy A fracked well in West Texas can produce ...

A truck filled with gas departs a newly completed gas well. The flare is burning because infrastructure to transport the gas via pipelines was not completed in time. Attorneys representing Plum ...

Ohio has become a state of easy virtue for readily allowing “fracking waste” – the hazardous byproducts of the high-pressure slurries injected to extract oil and natural gas from shale far below Earth ...

Changing the way wastewater injection wells are planned and operated can largely resolve most concerns about man-made earthquakes resulting from oil-field activity, a scientist told the U.S. Senate ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

The wastewater injection site in Plum run by Penneco Environmental Solutions has been the subject of nearly a decade of legal battles and community backlash as the company has sought to expand its ...

A fracked well in West Texas can produce five times as much wastewater as oil. Every day, fleets of tanker trucks haul hundreds of millions of gallons of this toxic brine to loosely regulated disposal ...