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

The blast happened in May 2023 at the former Fairmont Brine Processing site a few miles from town, near the Monongahela River ...

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 ...

The DRBC says the resolution approved Wednesday also clarifies the circumstances in which water, including wastewater, may be exported from or imported into the basin. Fracking is when water and ...

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.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows companies to discharge unlimited amounts of fracking wastewater into the Gulf. An industry report to the EPA found that each frack releases about 21,480 ...

Such accidents are disturbingly common. A fracking boom in North Dakota, for example, has led to thousands of accidental releases of oil, waste water and other fluids, according to a ProPublica ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico environmental officials have proposed a new regulatory framework for reusing wastewater with ... sector and water-intensive fracking as a potential source ...

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 ...