More than two years after Valley Water Management Company settled with environmental groups to halt discharges at two facilities where wastewater seeped into groundwater, Race Track Hill and Fee 34 are finally closed.
A team of experts from a number University of California schools argue that recharging groundwater to manage pollution should be permitted by the state.
A study of a blowout site in the Netherlands offers safety lessons for natural gas fields around the world.
Experts are concerned about how rainfall could spread toxic chemicals and destabilize hillsides thus threatening to damage the region's water supply.
Just-announced regulations take a step toward ensuring safer and more transparent fracking methods.