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 ...

During the process, a solution of pressurized water, chemicals and proppants such as sand are used to create and hold apart fractures in the rock, allowing oil and natural gas to flow through pipes ...

Pennsylvania American Water will supply clean drinking water in Dimock, Susquehanna County, to replace well water contaminated by natural gas fracking, the company announced Wednesday. The project ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a ...

Chemicals found in wells near the site of a 2022 incident in Freeport Township indicate a link to nearby fracking activity, according to a recent report by researchers from the University of ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — New research in Pennsylvania demonstrates that it’s hard to nail down how often natural gas drilling is contaminating drinking water: One study found high levels of methane in some ...

Under the soils of the Kimberley lies one of the world’s last undeveloped large-scale reservoirs of onshore gas, according to ...

Fracking essential for U.S. energy security as AI data centers increase power demand, with nine million barrels daily from ...

Read full article: Breezy Tomorrow with Calm Weather Next Week San Antonio firefighters respond to a fire that spread from a small West Side home on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. Read full article: No ...

This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here. MIDLAND On any given day, energy companies ...