Fracking seems like a quick fix for our energy needs, but it disproportionately harms marginalized communities.

Fracking waste disposal wells owned by Ohio Sen. Brian Chavez leaked toxic 'brine' for years, once requiring a $1.3 million state cleanup.

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 ...

The team has enlisted the help of the DNA Sequencing and Analysis Facility to find more bacteria to use in the beads. Wackett said the group tested the fracking wastewater to see if there were any ...

“There is no oversight,” says Robert Green, who works in southwestern Pennsylvania in an industry that insures that pipelines can appropriately handle the complex and often hazardous fuels and ...

The new rule modernizes some aspects of commercial oilfield waste disposal and recycling. But rules for burying oilfield ...

Ironically, it was supposed to be a treatment site for fracking wastewater, but the project was put on hold because local authorities deemed it too dangerous. The building has been vacant for years.

Transparency requirements in U.S. states and mounting public pressure on fracking contributed to making surface water up to 14% cleaner ...

It took 2 years, but the Texas Railroad Commission has updated regulations for the disposal of brine, drilling mud and other ...

An underground well drilled in preparation for a controversial fracking operation is now being used to create clean, green geothermal energy. The site in Kirby Misperton was at the centre of a ...

Ian Wright from Western Sydney University, a scientist who has independently tested wastewater at NT fracking sites in the past, said the incident was concerning "given the serious nature of ...