ODESSA, Texas — For retired pastor Columbus Cooper, life can be divided into two periods: the time when he could still drink water out of his tap, and the time after. When Cooper and his wife bought ...

PITTSBURGH — In at least four states that have nurtured the nation’s energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was ...

Watch how a legacy of oil drilling and regulatory failure destroyed one Oklahoma family’s dream home and contaminated another ...

The water coming from these wells can contain high levels of salt, benzene, oil and other chemicals, endangering layers of protected groundwater that the well cuts through. In some cases, like the ...

Oklahoma residents have shown The Frontier and ProPublica many ways that oil and gas pollution harms their health and property. One family shared photos of a thick, black fluid with an oily sheen that ...

The next meeting of the largest annual climate conference in the world takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, just six days after the U.S. presidential election in November. And organizers of COP29 are ...

Reporting for this story was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. WINKLER COUNTY, Texas—The first sign of trouble appeared in 2003 when the water samples came back salty.

The oil giant says the documents ignore the critical context of the complex operating environment at the time.

For years, residents of the coastal village of Djeno in the Republic of Congo have complained of hydrocarbon pollution and the effects of gas flaring on their health. TotalEnergies EP Congo (TEPC), a ...

War is measured first in lives lost, families uprooted and neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. But there are also deadly ...

PITTSBURGH —I n at least four states that have nurtured the nation’s energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was ...

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