Frac sand destined for the oil and gas fields piles up at the EOG Resources Inc. processing plant in Chippewa Falls, Wisc. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — Largely overlooked in the national debate over ...

Steve Harmon’s house shakes when the mining company 100 yards away blasts into what was once farmland. His patio is constantly covered in a thin layer of fine white sand. He and his neighbors also had ...

The Houston County Commissioners were not able to come to an agreement on a frac sand mining ordinance Tuesday morning. Houston County will revert back to the original ordinance that says little about ...

KERMIT, Texas — It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. It's a new sight: ...

A proposed rail shipping hub for frac sand got a boost when the Wabasha City Council rejected a request to study the environmental risks. Monday night’s vote could lead to hundreds of truck trips a ...

Aurora is partnering with Detmar Logistics to operate 30 autonomous trucks hauling frac sand in the Permian Basin starting next year. Detmar's autonomous fleet will run on public roads. The autonomous ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission has put over 12,000 acres of a remote wildlife area, called Egypt Valley, out ...

YARDLEY, Pa., Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart Sand, Inc. (SND) (the "Company" or "Smart Sand"), a leading supplier of premium Northern White frac sand and industrial sand and a proppant logistics ...