COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly 3 billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater have been injected underground in southeastern Ohio — pumped deep beneath the feet of residents who say they’ve had little say in ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has found that since 2019, seven Class II injection wells have leaked underground. Since then, ODNR has enacted stricter rules for injection wells and has not ...

Freshwater use in oil and gas drilling has come under scrutiny in Colorado as the state faces a historic drought. On Wednesday, March 12, state regulators announced new rules that will require ...

Water utilities and government officials in Washington County, Ohio, are banding together to call for a moratorium on the permitting of injection wells.

Let’s pretend there’s a giant switch we could flip that would shut down all the injection wells in Southeast Ohio.

A long-overdue rebellion is brewing in southeast Ohio — one directed squarely at the fracking wastewater industry, and at the ...

The driest summer in more than a decade prompted an Ohio watershed district this summer to take the unprecedented step of limiting the use of water for oil and gas fracking. The restrictions applied ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the far reaches of Appalachian Ohio, DeepRock Disposal Solutions and other companies pump salty, hazardous waste from oil and ...

In a little-known corner of state government lies the Water Quality Control Commission. It’s supposed to protect clean water, but the governor is directing certain members of the commission to approve ...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Petroleum (Beijing) have demonstrated that CO2 may make a better hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid than water. Their research, ...