If you spend a little time investigating on YouTube, it is easy to find videos of tap water that lights on fire. People walk up to their kitchen sinks, open the tap so that water flows freely from the ...

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 ...

JOHNSON COUNTY, Texas — For Texas farmers and ranchers, clean land and water aren’t luxuries — they’re lifelines. But a new state law has farmers and environmental advocates raising serious concerns.

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Fracking wastewater gushes out of a geyser in Toyah, Texas, in 2024. The geyser flowed water for 19 days before it was stopped. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images On Oct. 2, ...