It sounds like something out of a Flannery O'Connor novel: Oilfield wastewater gurgling up in the parking lot of a Texas ...

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 ...

The state is shutting down oil and gas wastewater wells. These wells keep this water away from groundwater. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission said oil and gas wastewater wells can cause earthquake ...

Earthquakes continued to rumble the Permian Basin in West Texas and southeast New Mexico in late 2023, leading regulators on both sides of the state line to act. The Texas Railroad Commission ...

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground across Oklahoma. It has bubbled up near homes and a school — and it has killed farmers’ crops and ranchers’ calves. These incidents, ...

Salty water spewed out of the earth in Reeves County, Texas for weeks during October 2024. This geyser, one county over from Pecos County, was eventually plugged. [Photo: Martha Pskowski/Inside ...

Siri Lawson and her husband live on a stamp of wooded, hilly land in Warren County, Pennsylvania, nestled in the state’s rural northwest corner. During the summer heat, cars traveling on the county’s ...

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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, ...