Sentences with phrase «treat fracking wastewater»

ExxonMobil subsidiary, with arm twisted behind back, agrees to treat fracking wastewater.

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Before the ban was in place, Cuomo himself had even references Ruffalo's advocacy when mocking his 2014 gubernatorial opponent Rob Astorino's stance on natural gas through the banning of fracking wastewater being being used to treat roads in Westchester County.

Over half of the wastewater from fracking, rough 2 - 6 million gallons, is often released back into the main supply with minimal treatment due to ineffectiveness of facilities to detect, let alone properly treat.

The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydro fracking as hazardous waste.

XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, will reluctantly shell out $ 20 million to properly treat and dispose of fracking wastewater in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

«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.