By Diane Huskinson, Stroud Water Research Center, December 2013
An explosion of natural gas drilling in recent years …
An explosion of natural gas drilling in recent years …
Environmental Science and Technology, September 10, 2013
By Nathaniel R. Warner, Cidney A. Christie, Robert B. Jackson, and Avner Vengosh
Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC
A case involving the disposal of …
In the state of Pennsylvania, home to the lucrative Marcellus Shale formation, 74 facilities treat wastewater from the process of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. “fracking”) …
Questions about the integrity of official water tests are stirring the latest controversy over New York State’s embattled policy of allowing imports of radioactive waste from
Having settled one water pollution case, an Exxon subsidiary is now facing a federal …
Millions of gallons of water laced with toxic chemicals from oil and gas drilling rigs are pumped for consumption by wildlife …
Frack waste can also be radioactive. There is plenty of information on the web.
Here is a good place …
Federal and State agents from the IRS, FBI, PA Attorney General’s office and Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) raided …
The maps included here are from an XTO permit application of August 2012, and give a quick view of what goes/comes from where.
Looks like there will be quite a bit of traffic around and right …
Its contents remain mostly a mystery. But fracking wastewater has revealed one of its secrets: It can be highly radioactive. And yet no agency really regulates its handling, transport or disposal. A four-part series on radiation in fracking wastewater …
Injection wells used to dispose of the nation’s most toxic waste are showing increasing signs of stress as regulatory oversight falls short and scientific assumptions prove …