Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blake Muir and niece Jennifer Sullivan look over a tank battery an Inside Climate News analysis found would be inundated in a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio regulators spurred four Washington County injection wells that receive fracking waste to stop operating after determining they may be tainting nearby oil and gas wells. The ...

Two neighboring townships in a heavily fracked part of Pennsylvania are seeking federal and state funding for a public water system to replace private wells that have been contaminated for more than ...

Back at the end of June, when crude oil prices inched to over $40 a barrel after the pandemic-induced plunge, the petroleum industry seemed to breathe a sigh of relief – hoping that the worst was over ...

“Those are not issues that most counties, on an individual basis, are well suited to handle,” said Todd Votteler, former executive manager of science, intergovernmental relations and policy at the ...

Longtime residents of these historic ranchlands still remember the last time these plains filled up with water in a biblical inundation in 1998. That was before the fracking boom hit this region and ...

“It’s a disaster waiting to happen,” said Sister Elizabeth Riebschlager, an 89-year-old Catholic nun from Cuero. Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit ...