Northeastern States Push To Keep Fracking Waste Out
Law360, New York ( July 16, 2014, 11:18 AM EDT) -- What goes down must come up: Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing operations produce over a billion gallons of salt-laced and chemical-laced wastewater per year, as well as hundreds of thousands of tons of solid waste, and all of that material has to go somewhere. Popular destinations for the waste include the neighboring states of Ohio, New York and West Virginia, where the wastewater is sent to water-processing plants or reinjected into the earth in disposal wells, and the solid waste is housed in landfills. However, there appears to be a growing trend among Northeastern states, which are geographically close to Pennsylvania's large-scale fracking operations but do not have fracking operations themselves, seeking to ban the storage, processing or disposal of fracking waste within their borders....
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