What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

The Permian basin's massive oil production from hydraulic fracturing generates huge amounts of wastewater, and the industry is running out of safe places to dispose of it. The Texas Railroad ...

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The Permian Basin is the largest contributor to U.S. oil production, accounting for nearly half of total production in both 2024 and 2025. But success comes at a price, and in the Permian’s case, the ...

A truck for Noble Environmental, the parent company of Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa., drives down a road on a rainy day. When John Quigley became the secretary of the ...

The Howard County Council will soon decide the fate of relaxed accessory apartment regulations being pushed by the state to address a lack of affordable housing. At Monday’s council meeting, ...

Record amounts of salty, chemically laden “produced water” are being drawn to the surface at Permian Basin drilling sites. GRANDFALLS, Texas — The name of this city in far West Texas, surrounded by ...

Shale drillers have turned the biggest oil field in the U.S. into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams. Producers in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico extract roughly ...

Dennis Elam is an associate professor at Texas A&M San Antonio and a 1966 graduate of Andrews High School and blogs at www.professorelam.blogspot.com The Permian Basin, which includes West Texas and ...