Frack secrets by thousands keep US clueless on wells.

Drilling companies in Texas, the biggest oil-and-natural gas producing state, claimed chemical disclosure exemptions about 19,000 times this year through August. Nationwide, companies withheld one out of every five chemicals they used in fracking, a separate...

For fracking, it's getting easier being green.

Stung by environmental criticism, the petroleum industry is trying to clean up its act. Halliburton and the other three largest oil-field service providers spent $2.04 billion on research and development in 2011, up 32 percent from two years earlier.

Detecting oil spills: Trouble beneath the ice.

As oil exploration moves into the Arctic, new methods are being developed to detect and handle spilled oil in remote, icy seas – where response efforts are impeded by storms, high winds and massive, drifting ice floes, and where visibility is minimal.

Omaha company settles over lead contamination.

A Nebraska metal refinery has agreed to pay $500,000 to help cover more than $275 million in environmental cleanup costs to rid eastern Omaha properties of lead contamination under a settlement that avoided what could have been a more costly court fight.

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