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ExxonMobil Fined for Fracking Wastewater Spill into Pennsylvania River
Posted by EcoWatch: Trisha Marczak on July 22nd, 2013
EcoWatch: The Obama administration has fined an ExxonMobil subsidiary $100,000 and ordered the company to spend $20 million to improve its hydraulic fracturing wastewater management system in the wake of a 2010 leak that contaminated a tributary of the Susquehanna River.
This photo taken from a plane above Hickory, PA, shows pits containing fracking wastewater. Photo credit: Marcellus Protest via Flickr.
The U.S Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) handed the fine down...
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Comments Off on ExxonMobil Fined for Fracking Wastewater Spill into Pennsylvania RiverOhio Fights Back After Becoming the Nation’s Fracking Waste Dump
Posted by EcoWatch: Trisha Marczak on July 15th, 2013
EcoWatch: For those living in Ohio, hydraulic fracturing wells aren’t the only cause of concern in the nation’s quest to leave no oil formation un-fracked. The state has been the site of a growing fracking fluid disposal industry that enjoys a steady stream of business from neighboring Pennsylvania.
Ohio is home to 191 fracking fluid disposal wells. Last year, more than 14 million barrels of the toxic waste were injected into the ground in Ohio.
With the focus on the petroleum industry’s use of fracking...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Ohio Fights Back After Becoming the Nation’s Fracking Waste DumpEPA Pushes Back Fracking Impact Study to 2016
Posted by EcoWatch: Trisha Marczak on June 21st, 2013
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving back its timeline for release of its study on the impact of hydraulic fracturing from 2014 to 2016, the agency announced this week at the Shale Gas: Promises and Challenges conference in Cleveland, OH.
The study, aimed at assessing the threats fracking poses to groundwater supplies and air quality, began in 2010 under the direction of Congress. The intent was to create a thorough assessment of the drilling method so states could make informed...