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 ...

U.S. shale oil wells generate 27–45 million barrels of toxic wastewater every day, with shale gas adding billions more gallons annually. Traditional underground disposal is polluting groundwater, ...

Freshwater use in oil and gas drilling has come under scrutiny in Colorado as the state faces a historic drought. On Wednesday, March 12, state regulators announced new rules that will require ...

The research is in the form of a computer model and field experiment data of ground faults. The combined approach indicates that there is a connection between subsurface fluid injections and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 27—Seismicity matters — especially when it comes to the oil and gas industry. A period of increasing seismic activity in ...

With the active support of state legislatures in West Virginia and Ohio and the engagement of oil and gas companies, many of which are based outside of this region, fracking (high-pressure hydraulic ...

NORMAN, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Seismologist Austin Holland wants to start an earthquake. From his office a few feet below the earth's surface - a basement at the University of Oklahoma in Norman - ...

Katie Muth knew it would be a long shot. This January, the Pennsylvania state senator reintroduced three pieces of legislation aimed at closing loopholes in the laws governing how the oil and gas ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...