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 ...

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. Credit: ...

For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

Energy prices are rising across the country, but they’ve spiked in Pennsylvania. The state welcomed natural gas companies after they promised that their fracking projects would lower utility bills.

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Oil prices are their lowest since the pandemic, revenues are falling, and profits are shrinking, but some frackers and oilfield players are suddenly thriving in the stock market as they invest in ...

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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 ...