Texas is about to deploy a potential solution to the oil industry’s toxic wastewater problem — but it’s a move that carries environmental risks of its own. State regulators are working to issue ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Hydraulic fracturing has dramatically boosted oil and gas production in the Utica and Marcellus shale formations of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania over the past 15 years.

Even after years of technological breakthroughs, the shale industry still leaves most of the oil underground. At best, American drillers siphon away 15% to 10% of what’s potentially available; the ...

U.S. shale oil wells generate 27–45 million barrels of toxic wastewater every day, with shale gas adding billions more gallons annually. Traditional underground disposal is polluting groundwater, ...

Trees covered in oil after a spill in Ojital Viejo, Mexico. According to experts, it will be years until food grown in the affected area is safe for consumption.Credit... Supported by By Omar Lázaro ...

More than a hundred people attended a public hearing on Thursday evening to criticize a cluster of new oil and gas wells proposed near the Aurora Reservoir. The project – known as the State ...

In early August 2025, Mexican oil company Pemex made a quiet announcement with loud implications: the state-owned enterprise will focus on unconventional oil and gas fields, which ultimately means ...

In a major U-turn in energy policy, Mexico has unveiled a 10-year plan to reverse a years-long decline in oil and gas production by tapping more unconventional resources through fracking. Petroleos ...

Mexico's 10-year plan aims to revitalize Pemex with help of fracking Sheinbaum approves fracking despite previous opposition Mexico's oil output has declined from about 3.4 million bpd in early 2000s ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Whatever you think you know about the relationship between gas and oil fracking and increased cancers, contaminated air, water and soil, and the ...

President Donald Trump’s push to expand domestic oil and gas production may bring new drilling to California’s Central Coast — including parts of Santa Barbara County. More than 400,000 acres of ...