Produced Water

For one West Texas rancher, the rampant orphaned wells have become both a mission and an existential threat.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gillian Graber considers herself an "accidental activist," a stay-at-home mom who learned in 2014 that a gas company wanted to drill wells 2,400 feet from her house on the eastern outskirts of Pittsburgh and had a vague notion […]

Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019, according to a federal report Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters...

Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019...

New Mexico politicians want to find a way to reuse oil wastewater cheaply, safely, and at scale, instead of discarding it.

The White House insisted Sunday that pro-Palestinian protests that have rocked US universities in recent weeks must remain peaceful, after police arrested around 275 people on four separate campuses over the weekend."We certainly respect the right of peaceful protests," National Security Council spo...

Companies in the U.S. are ready to begin extracting lithium from beneath the ground, but the jumbled intersection of state and federal law has made the legality of doing so murky.

Companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade, an Inside Climate News analysis found.

A new government report says oil spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019. It

A pipeline operator and two subsidiaries agreed Friday to plead guilty to negligently discharging oil off the Southern California coast in connection with a pipeline break that covered beaches with blobs of crude.

North Dakota regulators are investigating a massive spill of oilfield wastewater from a broken pipeline in the northwest part of the of the state. Karl Rockman, of the state Department

Scientists have been firming up the link between wastewater injection and erupting wells.

A new study says there's enough lithium in Pennsylvania's wastewater to meet up to 40% of domestic needs. But experts worry it will be used to justify more fracking.

The report says oil in runoff is the biggest source of ocean oil pollution.

The governor's plan to use treated water from oil and gas drilling is in limbo while public safety questions swirl.

Scientists estimate that wastewater from a large natural gas field in the northern Appalachian basin could provide up to 40 percent of the U.S.'s lithium needs.

40% of US need for lithium could be covered by Pennsylvania's fracking byproduct.

Burrowed into streambeds and rarely moving for their decades-long lifespans, freshwater mussels are biomonitors, meaning they indicate how clean their environment is, according to Penn State researchers. As the bivalves feed on organic matter and filter the water around them, their inner tissues and hard shells begin to reflect whatever is in their environment—including radioactive particles.

The aim is to draw key minerals, including lithium and magnesium, from ocean water, desalination plant residue, and industrial waste brine.