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Fracking

Pennsylvania Opens a New Loophole for Oil and Gas Wastewater Disposal

The state issued a permit that would allow companies to reclassify oil and gas wells and sell toxic wastewater as a separate product.

By Rebecca McCarthy

An oil wastewater pond and storage tanks at a site in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance
Sharon Wilson records methane emissions in the Permian Basin on Dec. 4, 2025. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

After a Decade of Efforts to Regulate Methane, the Trump Administration Promises New Rules

By Dylan Baddour

The construction site of a natural gas well sits in the background of a farm in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 6, 2024. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

In Harrisburg, Advocates Rally for Tougher Rules on Fracking

By Marie Cusick

A fracking pad in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance

Study of Groundwater Near Fracking Sites Finds Low Radium Levels, but Raises Concerns About Increased Salinity

By Jon Hurdle

A pipeline runs through a natural gas field on federally managed land in Sublette County, Wyoming. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Error in a Recent BLM Lease Sale Has Wyoming Residents Concerned Over New Oil and Gas Rules

By Jake Bolster

Commissioner Wayne Christian (left) introduces a new public participation policy during the Railroad Commission of Texas meeting on Tuesday. Source: RRC Webcast

Texas Oil and Gas Regulators Will No Longer Have to Accept Public Comment at Open Meetings

By Martha Pskowski

State Sen. Charles Perry, a Republican from Lubbock, speaks on Aug. 10 at the ribbon cutting of a new produced water treatment facility in Orla, Texas. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Pressure Increases for Texas to Allow Treated Drilling Waste Into Rivers and Rangeland

By Martha Pskowski

Pumpjacks lift oil from wells in Kern County, California. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

AI Applications for Oil and Gas Companies Worsen Climate Pollution

By Arcelia Martin

A fracking pad in Fairfield Township, Pa. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

More Data Centers Will Mean More Fracking in Pennsylvania. These Advocates Want Better Protections.

By Jon Hurdle

The Delaware River flows through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania border. Credit: Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Fracking Ban in the Delaware River Basin Survives a Republican Challenge (For Now)

By Jon Hurdle

The construction at Venture Global’s LNG export facility in Port Sulphur, La., on Feb. 26, 2024. Credit: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Governments Knew the Risks of Global Warming as They Chose Fossil-Fueled Growth in the 1950s and ’60s

By Bob Berwyn

President Donald Trump and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox display executive orders Trump signed to shrink two national monuments in Utah at the Oval Office of the White House on July 13. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Again Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, This Time by Much More

By Wyatt Myskow

A view of Shell’s massive ethane “cracker” plant at Monaca in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a project that opened in 2022. Credit: Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s Fossil Fuel Tax Revenue Lags Far Behind Other Energy States, Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

Abelardo de la Espriella celebrates after casting his vote during the Colombian presidential runoff on June 21 in Barranquilla. Credit: Leonardo Castañeda/Getty Images

A Trump Ally’s Rise in Colombia Could Mean the End of Landmark Climate Policies

By Katie Surma

A pit in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas, where the Railroad Commission plugged a wellbore that was previously gushing thousands of gallons of wastewater a minute. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

An Old Well Gushed Waste, Not Oil, in a Small West Texas Town

By Martha Pskowski

Oil rigs on the shores of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas. Credit: Maryorin Mendez/AFP via Getty Images

In Venezuela, Anxiety About Ramping Up Oil Production in the Heavily Polluted Lake Maracaibo Region

By Avril Silva

Santa Paula resident Ethan Higbee walks the area where an oil spill took place six months earlier in Ventura County. He smells residue he worries is oil remains. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

Six Months After Oil Spilled Into California Tributary, Families Worry the Cleanup Was Never Finished

By Steven Rodas

The Pinyon Plain uranium mine located within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni National Monument, a few miles from Grand Canyon National Park, in Tusayan, Ariz. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction

By Wyatt Myskow

A crew works to plug an orphaned well in the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge of Oklahoma.

Plugging Away at the Millions of Derelict Oil and Gas Wells in the US

Story and photos by J. Matt

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