An Allegheny Front investigation, with Inside Climate News, found drilling waste is sent to the same landfills as household ...

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far ...

Pennsylvania is sending large volumes of oil and gas wastewater out of state for disposal, with much of it injected into ...

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...

Sep. 18—If the New Mexico oil and gas industry recycled 95% of the wastewater it produces, there would still be 1.9 billion barrels left over. What to do with that water — the salty byproduct of oil ...

Environmental advocates on Wednesday celebrated a decision by the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission to prohibit the discharge of fracking wastewater into the state’s waterways and ...

In May, the New Mexico Water Quality Commission banned the discharge of fracking wastewater, whether treated or not, off an oil field. The decision — months in the making — was hailed by environmental ...

More than a decade after regulators promised to improve reporting standards for this waste, an Inside Climate News ...

In a little-known corner of state government lies the Water Quality Control Commission. It’s supposed to protect clean water, but the governor is directing certain members of the commission to approve ...

Fracking wastewater, a byproduct of natural gas extraction, contains significant lithium concentrations, a critical component in renewable energy technologies and electric vehicle batteries.

Record amounts of salty, chemically laden “produced water” are being drawn to the surface at Permian Basin drilling sites.