Six months after Denton, Texas, became the largest city in the U.S.—and the first in the Lone Star State—to ban fracking, Texas senators have approved a House bill that prevents local jurisdictions ...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a prohibition on cities and towns imposing local ordinances preventing fracking and other potentially environmentally harmful oil and natural gas ...

Record amounts of salty, chemically laden “produced water” are being drawn to the surface at Permian Basin drilling sites.

The Texas House of Representatives recently flexed its muscles and pushed cities and local governments away from regulating hydraulic fracturing. The Texas House approved a bill that gives the state ...

Tom Phillips said his clients or others who object to fracking bans will probably follow a two-pronged legal strategy. A Colorado judge's decision to overturn a hydraulic fracturing ban that voters ...

Texas, the nation's largest source of natural gas, plans to protect the secrecy of chemical mixtures used in hydraulic fracturing, a technique that environmental groups say contaminates drinking water ...

A pair of House Democrats say the state should change the way it taxes the fracking industry, a move that would generate billions of dollars of additional revenue for the state. At the same time, the ...

Fracking is supposed to be an energy godsend, a cheap way to get lots of natural gas. But property owners are finding it brings along with it such problems as flames coming out of their water hoses ...

Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania ...