PLUM BOROUGH (KDKA) — The Environmental Protection Agency will hear the public's input before deciding whether to approve a permit for a new fracking disposal injection well in Plum Borough. The well ...

Southern Ohio discovers toxic fracking wastewater migrating from deep injection wells, contaminating local groundwater. Fragmented state-level regulations and undisclosed fracking fluid compositions ...

Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on ...

The wastewater injection site in Plum run by Penneco Environmental Solutions has been the subject of nearly a decade of legal battles and community backlash as the company has sought to expand its ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission recently approved over 8,500 acres of land on Salt Fork State Park and Egypt ...

The years-long battle over a second injection well in Plum will continue. That’s because oil company Penneco Environmental Solutions filed an appeal in Allegheny County Court on Friday to the Plum ...

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.

A fracked well in West Texas can produce five times as much wastewater as oil. Every day, fleets of tanker trucks haul hundreds of millions of gallons of this toxic brine to loosely regulated disposal ...

A Westmoreland County company is asking the EPA to approve a second fracking waste injection well in the Pittsburgh suburb of Plum. It would be a few hundred feet from a controversial injection well ...