Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very ...

Although the measure floundered last year, Lujan Grisham was ready to try again to incentivize the treatment and reuse of both brackish water and fracking wastewater. “That’s why I’m ...

Texas leads the United States in oil and gas production, including producing 43% of the nation’s crude oil and 27% of its ...

One company wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced ...

Brine from fracking can be saltier than seawater and contain numerous chemicals from the fracking operation, as well as ...

Traditional owners and a scientist fear there have been more fracking chemical spills by gas companies exploring the Northern ...

The lack of regulatory oversight of radioactive waste in the oil and gas industry has created an environment ripe for some ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here and part two here. ODESSA, Texas — For retired pastor ...

Multiple presenters to the legislature’s committee on public bills said the government’s plan to lift the ban on uranium ...

The researchers connected this radioactivity to the landfill’s intake of oil and gas waste, which spiked earlier in Pennsylvania’s fracking boom. “I wouldn’t eat the fish. I wouldn’t ...