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Speakers spent more than an hour asking the council to deny the application, but council members said the vote was more of a formality and state law tied their hands.

The east Arlington location is the city’s first new drill site in more than a decade. Nearly 30 residents spoke against it.

Texas regulators are taking public comment about how they should implement an EPA rule to reduce methane leaks from the oil and gas industry.

New research from Southern Methodist University is looking at how wastewater injection impacts seismic activity in Texas. The hope is to better predict where earthquakes may hit and how strong they might be.

TotalEnergies, facing intense scrutiny from residents, can move forward with fracking expansion following Arlington City Council’s unanimous vote.

It's too early to tell whether the magnitude 3.0 and 3.2 earthquakes were human induced, but experts say most earthquakes in North Texas are due to oil and gas drilling.

Every time he’s required to vote on a natural gas drilling permit, Arlington City Council member Raul Gonzalez feels his stomach tie up in knots.

Following vocal opposition from more than a dozen residents and environmental advocates, Arlington City Council members gave the go-ahead to new natural gas wells near the eastern edge of the city.

To Ranjana Bhandari, executive director of environmental advocacy group Liveable Arlington, the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules to reduce oil and gas pollution are more than policy changes. The regulations, and what they represent, feel personal to her.

On a night where Arlington officials appeared poised to approve more gas drilling near a day care center and homes, the city council denied the permit request by a razor-thin margin after a public hearing Tuesday.

The day care center at the heart of Tarrant County’s fracking debate and an environmental advocacy group are suing the city of Arlington, alleging officials jeopardized children’s safety and the center’s business.

TotalEnergies requested the Arlington City Council postpone a vote that was supposed to take place Tuesday. In January, the council will decide whether to approve or deny the company's drilling permits to expand operations at an existing site near State Highway 360.