Fracking

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

EnLink Midstream’s Chickadee pipeline ruptured on March 29, 2023, causing one of the largest oil spills in the past decade in Texas. An incident report blames the massive spill on “incorrect operation.”

By Martha Pskowski

North Texas Suburb Approves New Fracking Zone Near Homes and Schools

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

What Is Produced Water?

By Liza Gross, Dylan Baddour

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

By Liza Gross

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

By Martha Pskowski

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

By Jon Hurdle

Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning

By Stacey Burling

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

By Martha Pskowski

EPA Officials Visit Texas’ Barnett Shale, Ground Zero of the Fracking Boom

By Dylan Baddour

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  

Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species

By Liza Gross

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

By Kiley Bense

In Pennsylvania, a New Administration Fuels Hopes for Tougher Rules on Energy, Environment

By Jon Hurdle

Residents Fear New Methane Contamination as Pennsylvania Lifts Its Gas-Drilling Ban in the Township of Dimock

By Jon Hurdle

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

By Dylan Baddour

Decarbonization Program Would Eliminate Most Emissions in Southwest Pennsylvania by 2050, a New Study Finds

By Jon Hurdle

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

By Jon Hurdle

Sinkholes Attributed to Gas Drilling Underline the Stakes in Pennsylvania’s Governor’s Race

By Kiley Bense

Indigenous Leaders in Texas Target Global Banks to Keep LNG Export Off of Sacred Land at the Port of Brownsville

By Dylan Baddour