How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Salting roads in winter makes them safer to drive on. But all that salt has to go somewhere and it's starting to be a problem.

Groundwater Contamination from Fracking Changes over Time: Study

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

A new Texas study has found that horizontal oil wells fractured by the injection of high volumes of chemicals, sand, and water contaminate nearby water wells with a variety of heavy metals and toxic chemicals that fluctuate over time.

Fracking Contaminates Groundwater: Stanford Study

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

Another scientific study has confirmed that fracking, the controversial technology that blasts apart low-grade rocks containing molecules of hydrocarbons, can contaminate groundwater.

EPA’s Abandoned Wyoming Fracking Study One Retreat of Many

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

It will be a long time before the EPA’s national study can inform the debate over fracking.