Fracking produces vast quantities of wastewater, and a Texas law would treat it and use it for crops and industry. Here’s ...

The state prohibits oil companies from discharging untreated produced water into lakes and rivers. Instead they must put the resurfaced produced water in a disposal well or reuse it for more fracking.

Destiny Ray, right, of YouthUnited for Climate Crisis Action, speaks at a rally outside the New Mexico Statehouse against rules for the treatment and recycling of oil-industry fracking water ...

Produced water is a blanket term that covers everything from used fracking fluid to ancient, extra salty seawater that gurgles up with crude oil. The chemicals and minerals in it vary from state ...

ODESSA, Texas — Oil and gas companies are seeking legal shelter as Texas comes closer to using waste brine once considered too toxic for anything other than fracking to replenish Texas’ water ...

The state prohibits oil companies from discharging untreated produced water into lakes and rivers. Instead they must put the resurfaced produced water in a disposal well or reuse it for more fracking.

An estimated 168 billion gallons of wastewater -- or produced water -- is generated annually by the Permian Basin fracking industry, according to a 2022 report. The major waste stream has proved ...

Takeaways. The state Water Quality Control Commission on Monday heard arguments for and against recycling fracking wastewater — commonly known as produced water — for industrial uses, such as ...

Fracking wastewater slashed from 'strategic supply' bill, ... The 2019 Produced Water Act directed the commission to draft regulations on the reuse of produced water, ...

Industry leaders estimate that produced water makes up about half of the water that operators use for fracking, with the rest being mostly brackish water. Few use freshwater, experts said, a ...

Researchers watered the alfalfa with cleaned produced water from a fracking site. No contaminants were detected in the plant or soil. Credit: Eli Hartman for The Texas Tribune.