Nearly 500 elementary school children in Texas play on fields where a whistleblower says he once spread tons of radioactive ...

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 ...

There's an old saying that I won't spell out completely, but which most readers will certainly have heard at least once in their lives, to wit: "Don't sh-- where you eat." It is an all-purpose warning ...

Trillions of gallons of toxic wastewater quietly move through the American oil industry each year, a hidden flood that rivals ...

Newly published research by a University of Pittsburgh doctorate student estimates that up to 40% of the lithium needed in the U.S. could be extracted from wastewater created by unconventional ...

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, ...

Documents show the industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn ...

Sep. 18—If the New Mexico oil and gas industry recycled 95% of the wastewater it produces, there would still be 1.9 billion barrels left over. What to do with that water — the salty byproduct of oil ...

There’s no disputing New Mexico’s oil fields generate a massive amount of fracking wastewater, but a contentious question is whether this toxic byproduct can be safely reused to boost water supplies.

A newly minted bill in the legislative session that would allow the discharge of treated oil and gas wastewater into New ...

Small earthquakes in Ohio and Arkansas associated with hydraulic fracturing for natural gas have taken many people by surprise. Gas industry executives say there's no hard evidence that their ...