GREENBRIER, Arkansas (Reuters) - Tony Davis, a 54-year-old construction worker in central Arkansas, said he welcomed the boom in natural gas drilling that brought jobs and new businesses to his ...

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

Ten years ago, Tim Kettler asked local officials to stop spreading liquid waste from fracking on the road near his home in Warsaw, Ohio, because he was worried that the fluid would contaminate a pond ...

David Shifflett, a farmer in Reeves County, parses records of his protests to the Texas Railroad Commission against permits for nearby wastewater injection wells. (Pu Ying Huang/The Texas Tribune, Pu ...

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 ...

PLUM BOROUGH (KDKA) — The Environmental Protection Agency will hear the public's input before deciding whether to approve a permit for a new fracking disposal injection well in Plum Borough. The well ...

When Judy Wanchisn was a few years into her fight to stop operation of a fracking injection well in her neighborhood, several people asked why she didn’t just move. “This is our family homestead,” she ...

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