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Two 18-wheel tractor trailers carry fresh water to natural gas wells being fracked in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale. After injection into the wells at high pressure, wastewater returns to the surface and is either recycled and used to frack other wells, stored above ground, or injected in storage wells below ground. The wastewater typically contains numerous toxic chemicals used in the fracking process as well as natural contaminants, such as arsenic, radium and salts. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

A Pennsylvania Community Wins a Reprieve on Toxic Fracking Wastewater

By Jon Hurdle

A pump jack sits idle above an oil well next to private homes in Bradford, Pennsylvania Aug. 14, 2008. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pennsylvania Expects $400 Million in Infrastructure Funds to Begin Plugging Thousands of Abandoned Oil Wells

By Stacey Burling

Activists gathered outside MoMA to protest fossil fuel donor Henry Kravis holding signs, a banner, and a model of an oil rig on June 6, 2023. Credit: Keerti Gopal

Climate Activists Protest the Museum of Modern Art’s Fossil Fuel Donors Outside Its Biggest Fundraising Gala

By Keerti Gopal

The canal expansion project will enable the world’s largest oil tankers to dock at Max Midstream’s Seahawk oil terminal, pictured on June 7, 2023, across Lavaca Bay from a jetty in Port Lavaca. Credit: Dylan Baddour / Inside Climate News

Determined to Forge Ahead With Canal Expansion, Army Corps Unveils Testing Plan for Contaminants in Matagorda Bay in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

John Carter looks at old oil field equipment covered by vegetation near his home February 18, 2016 in Depew, Oklahoma. Thousands of abandoned oil wells were never properly mapped and many of the original drilling companies no longer exist. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images)

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens and Other Harmful Pollutants, Groundbreaking Study Shows

By Liza Gross

Robinallen Austin, a member of Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights, (POWHR) overlooks land in the distance where 42 diameter sections of steel pipe have not been buried of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, MVP, on Aug. 31, 2022 in Bent Mountain, Virginia. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmentalists in Virginia and West Virginia Regroup to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Eyeing a White House Protest

By Jake Bolster

Andrea Honore sits outside former Gov. Charlie Baker's office. Photo Courtesy of Andrea Honore

Q&A: The ‘Perfect, Polite Protester’ Reflects on Her Sit-in to Stop a Gas Compressor Outside Boston

By Danish Bajwa

In a 2018 file photo, workers in Midland, Texas, extracting oil from oil wells in the Permian Basin. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.

Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas

By Martha Pskowski

A new fracking rig operates behind a house Feb. 10, 2016 in an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma neighborhood. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images

North Texas Suburb Approves New Fracking Zone Near Homes and Schools

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

Shell's new petrochemical plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. Credit: Emma Ricketts/Inside Climate News.

Shell Agrees to Pay $10 Million After Permit Violations at its Giant New Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

By James Bruggers

What Is Produced Water?

By Liza Gross, Dylan Baddour

A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on Dec. 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought, Even as Drilling and Oil Production Fell

By Liza Gross

The Stanton Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant, is seen in Orlando. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

EPA Proposes to Expand its Regulations on Dumps of Toxic Waste From Burning Coal

By James Bruggers, Amy Green

A woman and her baby stand in a flooded street, in the province of La Union in Piura, northern Peru, on March 25, 2017. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies Should Pay Trillions in ‘Climate Reparations,’ New Study Argues

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Inglewood Oil Field in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Bill Would Hit Oil Companies With $1 Million Penalty for Health Impacts

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main

A pump jack works in Texas' Permian Basin as the EPA proposes a new rule to reduce methane leaks in oil and gas operations. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs in the Oil and Gas Sector

By Martha Pskowski

Adam Norris surveys the wildfire damage at his home in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada, on May 8, 2023. - Canada struggled on Monday to control wildfires that have forced thousands to flee, halted oil production and threatens to raze towns, with the western province of Alberta calling for federal help. Credit: Walter Tychnowicz / AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could Be to Blame for a More Than a Third of West’s Wildfires

By Wyatt Myskow

Two 18-wheel tractor trailers carry fresh water to natural gas wells being drilled by hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale Sept. 10, 2012 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Ohio Environmentalists, Oil Companies Battle State Over Dumping of Fracking Wastewater

By Jon Hurdle

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