Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A state regulator has adopted a rule banning the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or "forever ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio regulators spurred four Washington County injection wells that receive fracking waste to stop operating after determining they may be tainting nearby oil and gas wells. The ...

Ohio has become a state of easy virtue for readily allowing “fracking waste” – the hazardous byproducts of the high-pressure slurries injected to extract oil and natural gas from shale far below Earth ...

New documents have raised questions about whether wastewater ponds at a proposed fracking project could safely contain water full of “toxic chemicals”.

California’s Geologic Energy Management Division is in the midst of finalizing regulations to ban fracking across the state, which will officially go into effect on October 1. The department submitted ...