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

The American oil and gas industry generates a staggering volume of toxic wastewater every year, and the vast majority of it ...

Texas is inching closer to adopting revised oil and gas waste management rules for the first time in four decades. The Railroad Commission of Texas announced the draft rule at its Aug. 15 meeting and ...

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Images of damaged coastlines, oily sheens, containment booms and endangered wildlife are part of every offshore oil spill. And while a response team arrives and the clean up gets underway, researchers ...

Santa Fe, NM — In a major shift from its previous position, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) this week voted to adopt a new rule requiring permits for all oil and gas “produced ...

Attorneys for the city of Midland — the nation’s shale oil capital — made an unusual request to regulators this year: Could they please be allowed to challenge drilling permits? The city isn’t ...