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Fracking

Pollution From a Pennsylvania Landfill Caused Problems for Decades. Fracking Waste Made It Worse

By Kiley Bense

Sharon Wilson, of the non-profit Oilfield Witness, uses a gas imaging camera to capture otherwise invisible emissions from an Energy Transfer compressor station in Arlington, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

‘Drill Baby Drill’: Texas City Approves New Site for Fracking Near Daycare and Schools

By Dylan Baddour

A wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm off the shores of Rhode Island. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

An aerial view of produced water ponds, used to treat and recycle wastewater from fracking, in Lenorah, Texas. Credit: Julian Mancha for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate

Texas Regulators Finalize Oilfield Waste Rule

By Martha Pskowski

A close-up photo of the mussel, shell open, is shown in the gloved hand of the biologist with water in the background

Elevated Levels of Radium Found in Western Pennsylvania’s Freshwater Mussels 

By Kiley Bense

A collage shows a selection of graphics Paul Horn of Inside Climate News made in 2024

These Graphics Help Explain What Climate Change Looked Like in 2024

By Paul Horn

Donald Trump speaks to city officials and employees of Double Eagle Energy on the site of an active oil rig on July 29, 2020 in Midland, Texas. Credit: Montinique Monroe/Getty Images

Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Agenda Sounds Like a Petrostate Plan to Some

By Marianne Lavelle

Steam rises from the Svartsengi geothermal power station on May 23 near Grindavik, Iceland. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

How Fracking Technology Could Drive a Clean-Energy Boom

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

With Independence Hall in the background, a crowd of people hold signs with messages including "No Drilling," "Ban Fracking," "No More Frackwaste Where We Live" and "Stop the Pipelines"

Polling Shows Pennsylvania Voters Are Divided on Fracking

By Kiley Bense

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey (left) and Republican Dave McCormick talk energy issues during Pennsylvania’s first Senate debate on Thursday. Credit: WHTM

Fact Checking the Pennsylvania Senate Candidates’ Debate Claims on Energy

By Kiley Bense

The first debate between Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Republican challenger Dave McCormick will take place on Thursday. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images and Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket

7 Debate Questions about Climate Change and Energy for Pennsylvania’s Senate Candidates

By Kiley Bense

From left: Sandra Silva, Jorge Nawel and Gonzalo Verges deliver a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission's Manhattan office on Sept. 26. Nawel's Indigenous Mapuche community in Argentina has been heavily impacted by fracking since the early 2010s. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Group Asks SEC to Scrutinize Fracking Companies Operating in Argentina

By Katie Surma, Keerti Gopal

Former President Donald Trump debates Vice President Kamala Harris for the first time during the presidential election campaign at the National Constitution Center on Sept. 10 in Philadelphia. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

A Trump Debate Comment About German Energy Policy Leaves Germans Perplexed

By Dan Gearino

A view of a fracking site in Marianna, Pennsylvania, on October 22, 2020. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

A Company’s Struggles Raise Questions About the Future of Lithium Extraction in Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense

CNX Resources said the company’s fracking operations “poses no public health risks,” a contention that is at odds with many studies on the impacts of the gas industry. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

After Partnering With the State to Monitor Itself, a Pennsylvania Gas Company Declares Its Fracking Operations ‘Safe’

By Kiley Bense

Brandon Horton, a driver for Allied Eagle Transports, monitors the transfer of a load of salt water, a byproduct of fracking, to a disposal site south of Midland, Texas, on June 25. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune

Study Links Permian Blowouts With Wastewater Injection

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Texas Tribune

A fracking drilling pad operates in the Marcellus Shale formation near Robinson Township, Pa. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s Fracking Wastewater Contains a ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Critical Clean Energy Mineral Lithium

By Kiley Bense

A view of an oil well adjacent to the Red Bluff Reservoir in Reeves County, Texas on Feb. 24, 2020. NGL Water Solutions Permian has proposed to discharge treated produced water into the reservoir. Credit: Justin Hamel

Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

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