One of Texas' answers to its looming water shortage? Let oil companies release treated fracking wastewater into rivers. A new law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott will allow oil companies to treat and sell ...

CARRIZO SPRINGS — In this South Texas stretch of mesquite trees and cactus, where the land is sometimes too dry to grow crops, the local aquifer is being strained in the search for oil. The reason is ...

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.

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, ...

AUSTIN — Shoving aside the will of local governments, the Texas House on Friday handed the oil and gas industry a major victory by tentatively approving legislation that would strip local officials ...

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 ...

Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields around the world over a 30-year career, but nothing prepared him for what he found when he finally came home to Texas. There, on the Permian Basin’s ...