Sentences with phrase «for fracking waste»
Those section conclude that «significant gaps remain» in regulation despite updates in some states, and they describe exemptions for fracking wastes from the Resource Recovery and Response Act's hazardous waste requirements, from the Clean Water Act's comprehensive permit program for discharges into surface waters, and from the Safe Drinking Water Act (which regulates groundwater pollution).
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«We applaud Governor Cuomo for his promise to protect New Yorkers from the danger of tracking,» the letter states, «and urge you to fulfill that promise by ensuring protection from potentially hazardous fracking waste.»
Unless your definition of «fracking» only includes the instant when holes are blown in the pipe, every state has had water and ground pollution from spills, traffic accidents, poor casing jobs, attempts to process frack waste through biological waste treatment plants not designed for that, etc..
«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York State.
The State Assembly, led by Democrats, passed a package of one house bills for Earth Day, including requiring private drinking wells to be tested before fracking occurs, and to classify fracking wastewater as hazardous waste.
During a hearing on water quality, Basil Seggos, the New York State commissioner for environmental conservation, said «no fracking waste is being dumped in New York State.»
And he says he supports legislation to prevent the fracking waste water to be spread on roads for dust control or as deicing salt.
«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York state.
We've got all of the infrastructure for fracking up in New York State, even the waste from here is getting dumped up in New York State, permitted by our Governor, Governor Cuomo,» said Hawkins.
Corning, NY — Prior to his press conference in Corning to discuss his plans to ban frack drilling wastes in New York landfills, Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor of New York, will tour the area around the Chemung County Landfill in Lowman.
Adam Skelos stood to make $ 1 per barrel of waste from fracking, according to the document, on top of his already $ 10,000 monthly salary for being a consultant.
It would be a far better use of most scientists and PhDs time who comment on this forum and on others like Open Mind to just STOP wasting YOUR time arguing with idiotic «drunken» deniers, and spend their time much more effectively by scouring the internet for such «events» as «Gas Fracking reviews by Government» etc etc in all nations across the world and use your education and skills and knowledge and actually make a positive difference to AGW / CC action by sending them a FORMAL SUBMISSION or offering up YOUR OPINION and EXPERTISE to be considered in their deliberations.
In the push for quick deployment, and quick profits, we have cut corners in many areas (think deep sea drilling, fracking, interstate transit systems, waste handling, tar sands, the threat of [coronal mass ejections] to our electronic and power systems... this could go on...).
I have no quarrel with those taking an absolutist «no fracking» stance, including the makers of «Gasland,» the searing documentary on fracking nominated for an Academy Award, as long as they come up with other energy options that can reduce dependence on oil or coal (and cutting energy waste, while vital, doesn't do the trick).
It's from instances where waste fluids — for example, the water used in fracking — are injected deep into the earth.
California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil waste injection sites and a review of over 100 others in the Central Valley for fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids into drinking water aquifers.
Environmentalists have long been concerned about the risks fracking poses to drinking water via the vast amount of waste that it produces, and the potential for methane and other chemical migration into aquifers.
A coalition of environmental organizations is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming federal regulators have for three decades failed to update rules for disposing of fracking and drilling wastes that may threaten public health and the environment.
«EPA has identified significant flaws in the state's fracking proposals, particularly inadequate plans to treat hazardous wastewater, questions about unsafe levels of radiation in fracking waste, and the absence of any consideration of the environmental impacts of the infrastructure associated with fracking, such as pipelines and compressor stations,» said a statement issued by a coalition of hydrofracking opponents including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and others.
Did fracking fluids ever contain industrial waste mixtures which, if pumped into the ground for non-gas production purposes, would have been regulated as hazardous waste?
For those of us on a more human time frame, the methane and other gases emitted from decomposing organic matter work just as well as the stuff you have to frack out of the ground... and, as you can see in the infographic below, create all sorts of opportunities to deal with wastes more efficiently, and to even create a few jobs.