The EPA also notes that disposing of fracking wastewater directly into surface water could contaminate drinking water. Again, no joke. I should also point out that jumping from a car traveling at ...

Scientists recently discovered lithium in Pennsylvania’s fracking wastewater, offering a promising avenue to reduce reliance ...

Tim Latimer has raised more than $400 million for his dream of unlocking green energy from Earth’s crust. Backers include ...

Duke graduate students Nancy Lauer and Jennifer Harkness conducting water and soil sampling at the Bear Den Bay spill site in North Dakota, where fracking wastewater was spilled. Disclaimer ...

An estimated 168 billion gallons of wastewater—or produced water—is generated annually by the Permian Basin fracking industry, according to a 2022 report by the Texas Produced Water Consortium.

2 state for oil production behind Texas, is looking to its energy sector and water-intensive fracking as a potential ... reuse about 40% of residential wastewater after treatment and purification ...

Fracking requires an enormous amount of water, and because fracking waste water contains dangerous toxins it generally cannot be cleaned and reused for other purposes. Especially during a historic ...

and at least 66.3 million gallons of fracking waste dumped into the Gulf over a decade. Chemicals used in offshore fracking and acidizing pose significant health risks to both humans and wildlife, ...

The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission will consider fracking two large tracts at Salt Fork State Park, two wildlife areas and two rights-of-way along state highways at its Monday meeting. The 1 p ...

A fracking firm breached its waste management permit, government inspectors found. Cuadrilla received the government's go ahead last month to allow fracking of the first well at its Preston New ...

The Territory’s largest approved fracking project has been threatened with a Federal Court injunction as environmentalists ...

The Kansas Geological Survey determined that fracking wasn’t causing the earthquakes but said the practice of injecting oilfield wastewater into rock formations underground was a likely cause.