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An injection well pumps oilfield wastewater into the ground in Coyle, Oklahoma. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images

Peering Inside the Pandora’s Box of Oil and Gas Waste

By Kiley Bense

Water flows from an orphaned oil well on Schuyler Wight’s ranch in Pecos County, Texas. Credit: Courtesy of Schuyler Wight

Another Blowout Adds to Mystery of Permian Basin Water Pressure

By Dylan Baddour

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 gas drilling rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside the town of Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

New Demands to Measure Emissions Raise Cautious Hopes in Pennsylvania Among Environmental Sleuths Who Monitor Fracking Sites

By Jake Bolster

U.S. President Joe Biden and Catherine Coleman Flowers, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, arrive for an event at the White House on April 21, 2023. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Some Americans Don’t Have the Ability to Flush Their Toilets. A Federal Program Aimed at Helping Solve That Problem Is Expanding

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Francis Scott Key Bridge crosses Bear Creek and the Patapsco River. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Proposed Cleanup of a Baltimore County Superfund Site Stirs Questions and Concerns in a Historical, Disinvested Community

By Aman Azhar

In July 2002, then-Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker, second from right, listens to a progress report on rescue efforts at Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania. At right is Joseph A. Braffoni, of the Bureau of Deep Mine Safety, second from left is Larry Winckler, center is David Hess, Pennsylvania secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and at left is Jeffery Stanchek a mine rescue instructor for the DEP. They were coordinating efforts to reach nine miners trapped for three days. Credit: Gene J. Puskar/ AFP via Getty Images.

David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

By Jake Bolster

An oil drilling rig works in the Permian Basin oil field in Midland, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Thousands of Oil and Gas Wastewater Spills Threaten Property, Groundwater, Wildlife and Livestock Across Texas

By Martha Pskowski

A natural gas well site outside of Hope, in eastern New Mexico. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

New Mexico Looks to Address Increasing Aridity With Brackish and Produced Water. Experts Are ‘Skeptical’

By Wyatt Myskow

A stock pond south of Dallas dries up due to drought conditions. Across Texas, drought is taxing reservoirs and rivers and groundwater aquifers are being pumped faster than they can recharge. Currently, more than half the state is in drought. Credit: Paul Buck/AFP via Getty Images.

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

By Martha Pskowski

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore gives his first State of the State address at the Maryland State House on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 in Annapolis, Maryland. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Gov. Moore Commits Funding for 67 Hires in Maryland’s Embattled Environment Department, Hoping to Fix Wastewater Treatment Woes

By Aman Azhar

A wastewater treatment facility in Frederick, Maryland. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Toxic Releases From Industrial Facilities Compound Maryland’s Water Woes, a New Report Found

By Aman Azhar

View along the Patapsco River in downtown Baltimore on April 9, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

Baltimore’s ‘Catastrophic Failures’ at Wastewater Treatment Have Triggered a State Takeover, a Federal Lawsuit and Citizen Outrage

By Aman Azhar

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