ODESSA — Oil and gas companies are seeking legal shelter as Texas comes closer to using waste brine once considered too toxic for anything other than fracking to replenish Texas’ water shortages.

A city with a history of toxic waste problems is interested in trucking in more polluted substances. The Niagara Falls Water Board views the treatment of polluted water from hydraulic fracturing, or ...

Texas is about to deploy a potential solution to the oil industry’s toxic wastewater problem — but it’s a move that carries environmental risks of its own. State regulators are working to issue ...

In May, the New Mexico Water Quality Commission banned the discharge of fracking wastewater, whether treated or not, off an oil field. The decision — months in the making — was hailed by environmental ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico would make major new investments in early childhood education, industrial water recycling, and drug addiction and mental health programs linked to concerns about crime ...

The Texas Railroad Commission approved the construction of produced water ponds to treat and recycle produced water from fracking, next to the Circle 6 Baptist Camp in the Permian Basin. (Julian ...

Read full article: San Antonio shelters, businesses brace for impact as back-to-back cold weekends strain resources A San Antonio woman, Marisa Magana, is facing multiple felony charges after a ...

ODESSA, Texas — Oil and gas companies are seeking legal shelter as Texas comes closer to using waste brine once considered too toxic for anything other than fracking to replenish Texas’ water ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. As the state grapples with a threatened water supply, industry and ...

Tanks of produced water sit outside the Texas Pacific Water Resources research and development project site as they undergo oxidation using hydrogen peroxide outside of Midland. (Eli Hartman For The ...