The shale boom has been criticized for years due to its water-intensive fracturing technique. The risk of aquifer contamination may be overblown, but fracking’s water usage, especially in arid ...

MIDLAND — On any given day, energy companies across the vast Permian Basin in West Texas inject millions of gallons of water into the dry brown earth, breaking up layers of rock on the hunt for crude ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Environmental officials in New Mexico took initial steps Monday toward regulating the treatment and reuse of oil industry fracking water as the state grapples with scarce water supplies and fossil ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has created a new U.S. oil boom, opening billions of barrels of crude reserves in the Dakotas, Texas and California. But the process requires millions of gallons of ...

THESE IMAGES SHOWED THEM MASSIVE FRACKING PITS ON BRIAN LAKE CANISTERS PROPERTY. WHEN THE DRILLING OPERATION BEGAN A DECADE AGO, HE AGREED TO ALLOW DRILLING AND RECEIVED ROYALTIES. BUT SHORTLY AFTER ...

An alfalfa garden patch grows at the Texas Pacific Water Resources research and development project site outside of Midland. Researchers watered the alfalfa with cleaned produced water from a fracking ...

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This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here. MIDLAND On any given day, energy companies ...