New research suggests fracking waste could contain huge amounts of lithium, a main ingredient in batteries. But fracking will never be part of a clean energy future. New research suggests fracking ...

Nearly 500 elementary school children in Texas play on fields where a whistleblower says he once spread tons of radioactive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers in Youngstown, Ohio, unload hydraulic fracking fluids from a tank truck at an injection well, where the toxic waste will ...

A flooded site at the Austin Master Services toxic-waste storage facility in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. Credit: (Photo by Jill Hunkler) Environmental groups say more should be done to protect people’s ...

What passes for regulatory logic in the stewardship of Ohio’s natural resources by the administration of Gov. Mike DeWine includes the following, as reported by cleveland.com’s Jake Zuckerman: * ...

Newly published research by a University of Pittsburgh doctorate student estimates that up to 40% of the lithium needed in the U.S. could be extracted from wastewater created by unconventional ...

As newspapers have reported, Ohio’s DNR has now issued a finding that wastewater injection related to fracking probably caused the quakes. It wasn’t the fracking itself they say caused the earthquakes ...

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 ...

Sep. 18—If the New Mexico oil and gas industry recycled 95% of the wastewater it produces, there would still be 1.9 billion barrels left over. What to do with that water — the salty byproduct of oil ...

Small earthquakes in Ohio and Arkansas associated with hydraulic fracturing for natural gas have taken many people by surprise. Gas industry executives say there's no hard evidence that their ...