Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracking in the biggest US oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in ...

While you may think earthquakes are a rarity in New Mexico, think again. Dr. Urbi Basu, manager of the New Mexico Tech ...

The shallow disposal zones, located between oil-rich layers of shale and the surface, consist of porous rock that can absorb water. But the 100-year history of crude production in the Permian means ...

On June 10, Bill Armstrong told Petroleum News that 500 to 800 million barrels of recoverable oil is his estimate for the Sockeye discovery on the Lagniappe block on Alaska- s eastern North Slope.

Texas farmers and environmentalists worry that a new law allowing fracking wastewater reuse could threaten land and water ...

New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe ...

After a yearslong legal battle, the Plum Zoning Hearing Board rejected the application for a second injection well in the ...

Montana’s oil and gas drilling companies will soon have to disclose more about the chemicals they use to crack the earth, though as new rules are written, environmentalists and landowners say ...

And when we say everywhere, we mean everywhere. The state is inching closer to reusing fracking water to help make up for the shortage. Also known as produced water, the industrial waste would be ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of ...

Despite potential environmental and health threats, few municipalities have strong ordinances to protect residents from sites leaking waste.

But she noted that each well uses between 9 and 18 million gallons ... an industry trade group. Opponents of fracking say water from surface sources such as creeks are the wrong use of a common ...