Tag: wastewater

"Importantly and for the first time, EPA is committing to limit PFAS in wastewater discharges.”

Since the identification of the disease off Virginia Key in 2014, it has spread to the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Saint Maarten and Mexico.

A year-long investigation finds a major West Texas disposal site with a patchy record is also importing radioactive oilfield waste from abroad.

“Currently there is no way to treat, store, and release the billions of gallons of wastewater at the surface.”

"That has some very interesting and I think important consequences for how we understand the hazard posed by oilfield wastewater disposal."

"We don't know how much of an impact this has on human health, or if it has any impact at all, but this means it's entering the food chain."

"We want to get it taken care of as quickly as possible."

Water itself now poses a risk to the already failing financial model of the American fracking industry, and that is something the industry won’t be able to ignore.

The important insight of this study is sedimentary rock injection is not a safer alternative to basement injection.

At least 10 fracking chemicals routinely used in offshore fracking could kill or harm a broad variety of marine species, including marine mammals and fish.