Wastewater disposal in the Permian Basin is boosting pressure underground, threatening to hinder oil production ...

About 25 percent of fracking chemicals could cause cancer, according to scientists with the Endocrine Disruption Exchange. Evidence is mounting throughout the country that these chemicals are making ...

The Lower Rio Grande River is in a ‘near-permanent human-induced megadrought threatening all life that depends on it.’ ...

In 2005, Congress exempted fracking from federal regulation under the Safe Water Drinking Act. While the SWDA’s Underground ...

Increasingly, oil producers are cleaning it up just enough to reuse it for more fracking. Now, amid a growing water crisis, there is interest in oil country — and Austin — to clean the water ...

ODESSA — Oil and gas companies are seeking legal shelter as Texas comes closer to using waste brine once considered too toxic for anything other than fracking to replenish Texas’ water shortages.

Texas oil and gas companies are seeking liability protection as the state considers allowing treated fracking wastewater to be used for replenishing water supplies. Environmental experts express ...

Researchers watered the alfalfa with cleaned produced water from a fracking site. No contaminants were detected in the plant or soil. (Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman For The Texas ...

The Texas Legislature has also invested millions in research to clean the fracking wastewater. Critics say it’s not a viable solution to the state’s water crisis. Audio recording is automated ...

That water is either reused for fracking or stored underground. However, industry and legislators have put millions of dollars toward researching treatment methods. And now, some companies say ...