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
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
Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning By Stacey Burling
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
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
Decarbonization Program Would Eliminate Most Emissions in Southwest Pennsylvania by 2050, a New Study Finds 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