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COOLVILLE — About 40 community members expressed concerns about how fracking and injection wells affect the environment around them during a meeting about K&H injection wells in Troy Township, in

Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its recent decision to grant Louisiana authority over injection wells linked to carbon capture and sequestration projects.

Louisiana environmental groups on Tuesday filed a legal challenge to the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s decision making the state the primary regulator of carbon-capture projects planned by the oil and gas industry.

The EPA is handing over permitting power to the state's regulators. What could go wrong?

The agency has seen a large increase in the number of companies that want to bury carbon dioxide. But it has only approved two permits.

A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the economy.

Appalachian Ohio is a primary dumping ground for natural gas fracking waste. Nearly half of it is coming from neighboring states.

Environmental advocates, along with local government officials, are asking the U.S. EPA to intervene in Ohio’s authority to regulate Class II injection wells.

COLUMBUS – A group of national and Ohio-based community organizations and environmental groups earlier this week petitioned the U.S. EPA to take over primacy in regulating Class II injection wells

Environmental advocates, along with local government officials, are asking the U.S. EPA to intervene in Ohio’s authority to regulate Class II injection wells.