Effective oversight starts and ends with full transparency about all aspects of Ohio’s fracking operation, along with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers in Youngstown, Ohio, unload hydraulic fracking fluids from a tank truck at an injection well, where the toxic waste will ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission has put over 12,000 acres of a remote wildlife area, called Egypt Valley, out ...

Ohio is a notoriously difficult state for building renewable energy. Many counties ban wind and solar outright, but even in ...

The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill is located in Rostraver Township, Pa. On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles ...

In a little-known corner of state government lies the Water Quality Control Commission. It’s supposed to protect clean water, but the governor is directing certain members of the commission to approve ...

The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver Township, Pa. accepts fracking waste. A study by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found the liquid runoff from Pennsylvania ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

Landfill has poisoned communities with radioactive waste for over a decade, causing serious environmental and health impacts Westmoreland County, PA — Thursday, a packed room congregated for a state ...

A group in Kent is mustering forces to address three bills before the Connecticut Legislature regarding the import and storage of fracking waste water. The proposals are before the Energy & Technology ...

In May, the New Mexico Water Quality Commission banned the discharge of fracking wastewater, whether treated or not, off an oil field. The decision — months in the making — was hailed by environmental ...

This story was originally published by The Allegheny Front, a public radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania. On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon ...