Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A driver for Allied Eagle Transports monitors the transfer of a load of salt water, a byproduct of fracking, to a salt water ...

Fencing, barbed wire and warning signs surround a wastewater injection well owned by Occidental Permian, Ltd. and situated next to Jefferson Elementary School and Bensing Park in Hobbs, New Mexico.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the sixth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. To understand why wastewater impoundments and injection wells have been a ...

COSHOCTON, OH — JANUARY 25: Lucy Bryan Malenke, a freelance writer and local resident, with the white buildings and tanks of the Buckeye Brine injection facility on Airport Road in the background, ...

In 1971, scientists gathered at a symposium to examine the practice of getting rid of oil and gas wastewater by injecting it into porous rock formations deep underground. Called injection wells, they ...

More than 1500 people took to the streets of Albany, N.Y. on April 23, 2018, marching to the Capitol Building as part of the "Cuomo Walk The Talk" day of action. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket ...

The more oil and gas companies pump their saltwater waste into the ground, and the faster they do it, the more they have triggered earthquakes in the central United States, a massive new study found.

Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, ...

The wastewater has to be disposed of, and injecting it into disposal wells targeting rocks that can hold the additional fluids, is a common tactic. In the Delaware Basin, injection takes place into ...

Wastewater injection resulting from oil and gas production in Oklahoma caused a dramatic rise in seismic activity in the state between 2009 and 2015. But regulatory efforts to backfill some injection ...