Trillions of gallons of toxic wastewater quietly move through the American oil industry each year, a hidden flood that rivals the nation’s freshwater use. Known as produced water, this byproduct of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cache of government documents dating back nearly a century casts serious doubt on the safety of the oil and gas industry’s most ...

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, ...

Capital & Main reported that New Mexico's Water Commission unanimously passed a ruling that prohibits toxic wastewater from oilfields from being used anywhere else. However, at the governor's urging, ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) — A multi-million dollar effort to clean hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic waste out of the USS Yorktown has been completed after nearly two years of work, South ...

A River Parishes refinery is under heightened scrutiny from state regulators after it unlawfully discharged industrial waste containing arsenic, cadmium, chromium and other toxic heavy metals into ...

A nitrogen cycling bacterium turns toxic solvent wastewater into biodegradable plastic, using the solvent itself to block competing microbes and enable stable nonsterile production. (Nanowerk ...