Candie and Moses Rodriguez have seen the growth of the state’s oil and gas industry from their backyard. Their property north of Loving in southeastern New Mexico is like a small slice of pizza ...

CRANE COUNTY, Texas — There’s one thing you won’t find at the Antina Ranch: cows. That’s because test showed Antina’s main water well was tainted with contaminants such as benzene, chloride, sulfate ...

A fracked well in West Texas can produce five times as much wastewater as oil. Every day, fleets of tanker trucks haul hundreds of millions of gallons of this toxic brine to loosely regulated disposal ...

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