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 ...

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 ...

What passes for regulatory logic in the stewardship of Ohio’s natural resources by the administration of Gov. Mike DeWine includes the following, as reported by cleveland.com’s Jake Zuckerman: * ...

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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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. Decades-Old Rule that Allowed ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...