Whether it’s an injection well for waste disposal or an oil well for extraction, the structure is mostly the same. A hole is drilled to a desired depth, typically around 4,000 feet for Class 1 wells, ...

PLUM BOROUGH (KDKA) — The Environmental Protection Agency will hear the public's input before deciding whether to approve a permit for a new fracking disposal injection well in Plum Borough. The well ...

I was pleased to see that The Plain Dealer deemed the illegal dumping of toxic fracking waste front-page material ("Ohio oil and gas driller charged with violating Clean Water Act," Feb. 15) and that ...

Hundreds of people watch as journalist Justin Nobel discusses the history of injection well legislation on Tuesday evening at Washington State College of Ohio. (Photo by Gwen Sour) MARIETTA – ...

A truck carrying fracking wastewater at an injection well in Morrow County, Ohio owned by Knox Brine Disposal in October 2015. The first fracking waste injection well proposed in Fayette County was ...

A Westmoreland County company is asking the EPA to approve a second fracking waste injection well in the Pittsburgh suburb of Plum. It would be a few hundred feet from a controversial injection well ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Injection wells the state allowed to operate for more than six months after a state regulator deemed them an “imminent danger” to Athens County and its people now must stop pumping ...

SANDY TWP. – Rather than hauling wastewater away, the Waste Management American Landfill wants to install an injection well on site to dispose of nonhazardous liquid. A public forum will be held at 6 ...