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Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth

Environmentalists have raised concerns about a bill moving through the Texas Legislature that would create a new fund for desalination, beneficial reuse of produced water and inter-state water purchases.

Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune

In Dimock, a Pennsylvania Town Riven by Fracking, Concerns About Ties Between a Judge and a Gas Driller

By Kiley Bense

$A fracking site is situated on the outskirts of town in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images$

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

$A fracking operation takes place on leased farm land near Dimock, Pennsylvania, where dairy farms used to dominate. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.$

Fracking Company to Pay for Public Water System in Rural Pennsylvania Town

A New Shell Plant in Pennsylvania Will Soon Become the State’s Second Largest Emitter of Volatile Organic Chemicals

By Reid Frazier, StateImpact Pennsylvania

$Outside Pittsburgh, host city last week to the Global Clean Energy Action Forum, a hydro-fracking drilling pad in Robinson Township, Washington County, extracts natural gas from the Marcellus shale formation. During the forum, attended by science and energy ministers from over 30 countries, activists denounced fracking and said they were still awaiting results from the state on what caused an apparent cancer among children in Washington County that coincided with the fracking boom. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.$

At a Global Conference on Clean Energy, Granholm Announces Billions in Federal Aid for Carbon Capture and Emerging Technology

By Katie Surma

Prosperity, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jon Hurdle

Rural Pennsylvanians Set to Vote for GOP Candidates Who Support the Natural Gas Industry

By Jon Hurdle

Q&A: Eliza Griswold Reflects on the Lessons of ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ Her Deep Dive Into Fracking in Southwest Pennsylvania

By David Shribman

Study: Pennsylvania Children Who Live Near Fracking Wells Have Higher Leukemia Risk

By Victoria St. Martin

John Fetterman’s Evolution on Climate Change, Fracking and the Environment

By Kiley Bense

In the Race for Pennsylvania’s Open U.S. Senate Seat, Candidates from Both Parties Support Fracking and Hardly Mention Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz

For the First Time, a Harvard Study Links Air Pollution From Fracking to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents

By James Bruggers

‘We’re Being Wrapped in Poison’: A Century of Oil and Gas Development Has Devastated the Ponca City Region of Northern Oklahoma

By Phil McKenna

The Riverkeeper’s Quest to Protect the Delaware River Watershed as the Rains Fall and Sea Level Rises

By Daelin Brown

$A new study shows the potential for widespread surface water pollution from hydraulic fracturing like at this drilling site in Western Colorado. Credit: Bob Berwyn$

Surface Water Vulnerable to Widespread Pollution From Fracking, a New Study Finds

By Bob Berwyn

$Threaded drilling pipes are stacked at a hydraulic fracturing site owned by EQT Corp. located atop the Marcellus shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images$

A Decade Into the Fracking Boom, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Haven’t Gained Much, a Study Says

By James Bruggers

$Climate activists protested the construction of the Perennial fracked gas power plant on Oct. 30 by delivering a letter to the offices of Gov. Kate Brown and Department of Energy Director Janine Benner demanding they take steps to terminate Perennial’s pe$

Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth

Environmentalists have raised concerns about a bill moving through the Texas Legislature that would create a new fund for desalination, beneficial reuse of produced water and inter-state water purchases.

By Martha Pskowski

Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune

In Dimock, a Pennsylvania Town Riven by Fracking, Concerns About Ties Between a Judge and a Gas Driller

By Kiley Bense

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

Fracking Company to Pay for Public Water System in Rural Pennsylvania Town

By Jon Hurdle

A New Shell Plant in Pennsylvania Will Soon Become the State’s Second Largest Emitter of Volatile Organic Chemicals

By Reid Frazier, StateImpact Pennsylvania

At a Global Conference on Clean Energy, Granholm Announces Billions in Federal Aid for Carbon Capture and Emerging Technology

By Katie Surma

Rural Pennsylvanians Set to Vote for GOP Candidates Who Support the Natural Gas Industry

By Jon Hurdle

Q&A: Eliza Griswold Reflects on the Lessons of ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ Her Deep Dive Into Fracking in Southwest Pennsylvania

By David Shribman

Study: Pennsylvania Children Who Live Near Fracking Wells Have Higher Leukemia Risk

By Victoria St. Martin

John Fetterman’s Evolution on Climate Change, Fracking and the Environment

By Kiley Bense

In the Race for Pennsylvania’s Open U.S. Senate Seat, Candidates from Both Parties Support Fracking and Hardly Mention Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz

For the First Time, a Harvard Study Links Air Pollution From Fracking to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents

By James Bruggers

‘We’re Being Wrapped in Poison’: A Century of Oil and Gas Development Has Devastated the Ponca City Region of Northern Oklahoma

By Phil McKenna

The Riverkeeper’s Quest to Protect the Delaware River Watershed as the Rains Fall and Sea Level Rises

By Daelin Brown

Surface Water Vulnerable to Widespread Pollution From Fracking, a New Study Finds

By Bob Berwyn

A Decade Into the Fracking Boom, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Haven’t Gained Much, a Study Says

By James Bruggers

Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction

By Ilana Cohen

Five Things To Know About Fracking in Pennsylvania. Are Voters Listening?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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