Fracking has contaminated drinking water and strained local water supplies in some circumstances, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found this week in a highly anticipated report.

Texas leads the United States in oil and gas production, including producing 43% of the nation’s crude oil and 27% of its ...

Water pollution from fracking can happen in variety of ways, including through surface spills and well casing failures. Such accidents are disturbingly common. A fracking boom in North Dakota, for ...

West Odessa residents face health risks from oil and gas industry pollution, impacting water quality and safety.

it just indicates whether contamination has occurred. And allocating $1 million to a study of how fracking chemicals would affect Florida’s drinking water is unnecessary. Hundreds of peer ...

The pollutants in fracking water can also enter our air when that water is dumped into waste pits and then evaporates. Air pollution caused by fracking may contribute to health problems in people ...

While oil companies minimize or deny the environmental effects of fracking, water and air contamination, health effects, and the impending threat of climate change are all difficult concerns to ignore ...

Fracking requires the use of massive quantities of water, and much of this water comes back to the surface contaminated by the elements underground as well as proprietary drilling chemicals added ...

Some of the changes made to the bill included banning PFAS-contaminated water from produced water reuse projects and requiring the disclosure of chemicals used during the fracking process.

Susquehanna County to replace well water contaminated by natural gas fracking, the company announced Wednesday. The project would be funded by a nearly $16.3 million settlement in 2022 between the ...