Earlier this year, more than 200 million gallons of untreated wastewater were discharged into local waters because of a leak at Piney Point, a former phosphate mining facility in Manatee County, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A file photo of crews working on the site of a deep injection well built by Manatee County to inject wastewater from Piney Point ...

WASHINGTON — For almost as long as there have been oil wells in Texas, drillers have pumped the vast quantities of brackish wastewater that surfaces with the oil into underground wells thousands of ...

Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, ...

COSHOCTON, OH — JANUARY 25: Lucy Bryan Malenke, a freelance writer and local resident, with the white buildings and tanks of the Buckeye Brine injection facility on Airport Road in the background, ...

Bradenton Mayor Gene Brown says the city is years ahead of a 2032 deadline to stop discharging treated wastewater into the Manatee River, but there’s still plenty of work to do . One of the newest ...

The Manatee County-owned injection well dedicated to the disposal of Piney Point's contaminated wastewater has caused its first spill. The county has reported to the Florida Department of ...