“California is firmly opposed to any and all new offshore oil drilling and extraction and we will be filing a public comment ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – More than 9,000 new acres of state-owned land have been made available for fracking, as a result of a ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Despite low natural gas prices there's still a whole lot of fracking going on as oil and liquids projects are picking up some of the slack. All of this domestically produced energy, which is ...

Environmental officials in New Mexico took initial steps Monday toward regulating the treatment and reuse of oil industry fracking water as the state grapples with scarce water supplies and fossil ...

Official says limits on drillers actually started before drought watches and warnings issued. Surface water withdrawal suspensions are in effect at 62 sites, including this one at Tunkhannock Creek, ...

Why is produced water from hydraulic fracturing put back into the ground? Produced water has high salinity, comparable to the Dead Sea in Israel, so it’s not high quality and would be difficult and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental advocates on Wednesday celebrated a decision by the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission to prohibit the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The oil and gas industry is getting another chance to shape the way fracked water is used in an arid New Mexico. Amid outcry from ...

Over the last few weeks, numerous articles have appeared touting the residue in wastewater that had been used in hydraulic fracturing operations as a potential source of lithium. Lithium, of course, ...

New research suggests fracking waste could contain huge amounts of lithium, a main ingredient in batteries. But fracking will never be part of a clean energy future. New research suggests fracking ...