New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe ...

Fracking wastewater ... to draw specific links between wastewater injection and recent blowouts in the Permian Basin, the nation’s top producing oil field, where old oil wells have lately ...

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Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracking in the biggest US oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in ...

Without fracking, there’s no twenty-first-century ... deep into the ground to crack open the ancient rocks of the Permian Basin, releasing trapped fossil fuels from their primordial prison.

Conservative members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce were in the Permian Basin today with Congressman August ...

Leftover wastewater may be reused for further fracking or injected underground ... especially in the Permian Basin, a region rich in oil and natural gas. This was due in part to not enough seismic ...

MIDLAND, Texas - Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday signed into law a suite of bills aimed at strengthening the state’s oil and ...

Fracking, the increasing use of which has ... a local oil and gas executive and former chair of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, put it. Zombie wells are “a black eye for the industry ...

The EIA says tight oil growth from the Permian has been equal to that of all non-Permian tight oil production combined ...