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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill into law that would prohibit city and county governments from banning using “fracking” techniques to extract oil…
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Toxic fluids used in drilling and hydraulic fracturing likely escaped an unlined borehole and migrated thousands of feet into a residential drinking-water…
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AUSTIN — Cities and counties statewide could no longer prohibit hydraulic fracturing under a sweeping, oil and gas industry-backed bill that has cleared…
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WASHINGTON — With real-time monitors, scientists have linked a swarm of small earthquakes west of Fort Worth, Texas, to nearby natural gas wells and…
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AUSTIN — The Texas Legislature is poised to take a major step toward wiping out a highly publicized local ban on hydraulic fracturing approved by a…
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AUSTIN — A bill that would limit cities and towns from passing local ordinances restricting oil and gas drilling and exploration is headed to the full…
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic…
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Hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – is the practice of extracting oil trapped in shale rock. It’s producing large quantities of oil in South Texas in the…
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Homeowners, industry leaders and those in the oil and gas business provided some heated testimony about a bill that would have required cities to take…
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Anti-fracking activists say they're being targeted by law enforcement agencies that work with the oil and gas industries to monitor threats to infrastructure.