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Oil or Water? Midland Says Disposal Wells Could Threaten Water Supply

As oil and gas companies struggle to dispose of their wastewater in the Permian Basin, the city of Midland is challenging applications for disposal wells near one of its drinking water sources.

By Martha Pskowski

Planned Fossil Fuel Production Vastly Exceeds the World’s Climate Goals, ‘Throwing Humanity’s Future Into Question’

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in Texas

By Martha Pskowski, and Peter Aldhous

An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter

By Lee Hedgepeth

A waste water tank truck passes on the main street of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images.

Should Toxic Wastewater From Gas Drilling Be Spread on Pennsylvania Roads as a Dust and Snow Suppressant?

By Jake Bolster

A car drives by a home with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas near Calvert, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Research by Public Health Experts Shows ‘Damning’ Evidence on the Harms of Fracking

By Jon Hurdle

Texas Continues to Issue Thousands of Flaring Permits

By Martha Pskowski

An aerial view of a natural gas pipeline under construction in Smith Township, Pennsylvania, in October 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

The Biden Administration Has Begun Regulating 400,000 Miles of Gas ‘Gathering Lines.’ The Industry Isn’t Happy

By Craig R. McCoy

An injection well in Western Pennsylvania. Credit: FracTracker.org

Answers About Old Gas Sites Repurposed as Injection Wells for Fracking’s Toxic Wastewater May Never Be Fully Unearthed

By Jake Bolster

A truck filled with gas departs a newly completed gas well. The flare is burning because the infrastructure to transport the gas via pipelines was not yet complete. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

A Rural Pennsylvania Community Goes to Commonwealth Court, Trying to Stop a New Disposal Well for Toxic Fracking Wastewater

By Jake Bolster

Gathered for a Climate Convergence at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, climate activists on Monday stood behind melting ice sculptures to demand more climate action by Gov. Shapiro and state lawmakers. Credit: Jon Hurdle.

At a ‘Climate Convergence,’ Pennsylvania Environmental Activists Urge Gov. Shapiro and State Lawmakers to Do More to Curb Emissions

By Jon Hurdle

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is supporting the Decarbonization Network of Appalachia, one of two groups in the Western Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia region that have been asked by the federal government to submit final applications for so-called hydrogen hubs. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region

By Jon Hurdle

$Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith$

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster

Kimberly Laskowsky sits in her living room in Marianna, Washington County, approximately 850 feet from EQT's Gahagan well pad.

‘It’s Just Too Close’: Pennsylvanians Who Live Near Fracking Suffer as Governments Fail to Buffer Homes

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

$In Pennsylvania, 40 percent of the watersheds that provide water for natural gas fracking contain small streams, according to FracTracker. Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images.$

A Fracker in Pennsylvania Wants to Take 1.5 Million Gallons a Day From a Small, Biodiverse Creek. Should the State Approve a Permit?

By Jake Bolster

In Darrow, Louisiana, Monique Harden of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice talks to residents about carbon capture at the Hillaryville Pavilion in June. Credit: Emily Kask for the Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

Fracking protestors

Ohio Injection Wells Suspended Over ‘Imminent Danger’ to Drinking Water

By Dani Kington, Athens County Independent

A natural gas compressor station sits on a hillside in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

New Pennsylvania Legislation Aims to Classify ‘Produced Water’ From Fracking as Hazardous Waste

By Jake Bolster

A natural gas compressor station on a hillside in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Appalachian Economy Sees Few Gains From Natural Gas Development, Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

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