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Natural Resources Defense Council
January 3, 2018
The rules were modest but would have provided important protections against the environmental and public health threats of oil and gas operations, including taking steps to improve well integrity, reduce the impact of toxic wastewater, and increase transparency around chemicals used in the frackingÃÂ ...
WOSU
January 3, 2018
The rules would have tightened standards for well construction and required disclosure of toxic chemicals contained in fracking fluids. But Mike Chadsey of Ohio's ... But Nathan Johnson of the Ohio Environmental Council says disclosure rules regarding chemical spills aren't enough. “We have some limitedÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
January 2, 2018
The department also claims that the disclosure of chemicals used by fracking companies is “more prevalent than it was in 2015 and, therefore, there is no continuing need for a Federal chemical disclosure requirement, since companies are already making those disclosures on most operations, either toÃÂ ...
Environmental Working Group
December 21, 2017
Myriad air pollutants are emitted from fracking sites. They include sulfur dioxide, a major source of tiny particles of soot; volatile organic chemicals that create lung-damaging ozone; and other chemicals linked to cancer, nerve damage and birth defects. The most frequently emitted toxic pollutants fromÃÂ ...
Dallas News
December 5, 2017
Congress took away the most powerful one in 2005, prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from safeguarding drinking water that might be harmed by fracking and denying the regulator the authority to find out what chemicals companies use, along with water and sand, to break up rock formationsÃÂ ...
LancasterOnline
December 31, 1999
This high-pressure water and chemical mixture is shot down into layers of stone to crack it and release oil and gas. People living near these wells have worried about chemicals getting into their water wells. ... It approved dozens of drilling and fracking chemicals from 2003 to 2014 with known risks.
Wheeling Intelligencer
December 31, 1999
Photo by Casey Junkins Once Marcellus and Utica shale contractors drill a well, a new team arrives for a fracking operation. The national debate over the safety and benefits of fracking continues. WHEELING –It takes up to 10 million gallons of water, 4 million pounds of sand and 9,100 gallons of chemicalsÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
"States have an exemplary safety record regulating fracking, and that environmental protection will continue as before," Western Energy Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma said in a release. Fracking has been so successful in boosting production over the past decade it has become almost synonymousÃÂ ...
The Colorado Independent
December 31, 1999
“The Trump administration is proceeding with revoking a 2015 rule requiring chemical disclosures and otherwise regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands,” reports The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. “According to a Bureau of Land Management document released Thursday and scheduledÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
November 17, 2017
During fracking a mixture of water, sand and chemicals is pumped under high pressure into a deep well to fracture the rock and release "tight"Â ...
Texas Monthly
November 17, 2017
A flare burns near a fracking well in the Eagle Ford Shale region on May 31, 2015, ... and chemical by-products associated with fracking to neurological ... keep the chemicals additives out of the water and air in disposal areas.
Daily Yonder
November 16, 2017
The "Halliburton loophole" exempts oil and gas companies from having to answer to the Clean Water Act for the chemicals they use for fracking.
InsideClimate News
November 16, 2017
Industrial Strength: How the U.S. Government Hid Fracking's Risks to ... sand and chemicals into rock formations, a process called hydraulic .... chemical-laced runoff from well sites and toxic air pollution from well equipment.
Tribune-Review
November 16, 2017
The company is best known for fracking for natural gas beneath ... sand and chemicals underground to crack the shale, which releases the ...
Marketplace.org
November 16, 2017
EPA scientists are privy to this chemical information, but cannot make it ... Some fracking chemicals are known, like ethylene glycol, which can ...
Marketplace.org
November 15, 2017
Chemical identities are largely unknown, and disease and causality ... 8) Eight volatile chemicals were found near wells and fracking sites in ...
WSET
November 15, 2017
... the process of injecting water and chemicals deep into the ground to ... Augusta County became the first Virginia locality to ban fracking, ...
Sacramento Bee
November 15, 2017
He has refused to ban fracking despite its use of toxic chemicals and the fact that it is fundamentally incompatible with fighting climate change.
EcoWatch
November 15, 2017
... oil and fracking with dangerous chemicals on such a massive scale. ... "Fracking on our public lands could contaminate Nevada's precious ...
Marketplace.org
November 15, 2017
But he thinks fracking chemicals polluted his water well and made his ... Though it's hard to prove cause and effect between a chemical and ...
Fredericksburg.com
November 14, 2017
Richmond County becomes second locality in state to ban fracking ... or fracking, the process of injecting water and chemicals deep into the ...
MilTech
November 14, 2017
Fracking Fluid and Chemicals market research report will educate buyer on past, current and anticipated market situations, market drivers, ...
Technology Networks
November 14, 2017
Fracking Environmental Contaminants Pregnancy Risk ... Despite the fact that many chemicals used or emitted by this industry are toxic to ...
Montreal Gazette
November 14, 2017
“There was no bio-monitoring (for toxic chemicals) done in this region despite it being one of the most intensive hydraulic fracking regions in the ...
Wyandotte Daily
November 14, 2017
So what is saltwater injection and what is fracking? ... it can contain chemicals — including those found in fracking fluid — and residual oil and natural gas. ... The Kansas Geological Survey, which studies the chemical makeup ...
Richmond.com
November 14, 2017
... or fracking, the process of injecting water and chemicals deep into the ... seat, is the second in the state to enact an outright ban on fracking.
Energy Collective
November 7, 2017
Drillers shatter layers of shale rock with high-pressure water, sand and chemicals to start the flow of hydrocarbons from a well. The hydraulic ...
Greeley Tribune
November 7, 2017
The dawn of fracking wells to stimulate oil/gas production began in the ... especially minimal use of water, no injection of fracking chemicals, ...
Lawrence Journal World
November 6, 2017
While fracking does not directly cause earthquakes, disposal of the ... We don't need either chicken parts or fracking waste chemicals in our ...
Food and Water Watch
November 6, 2017
These local ordinances protect the public from exposure to radioactivity and chemicals that cause leukemia, lymphoma, breast, bone and other ...
Chicago Tribune
November 4, 2017
The first company to obtain a permit for fracking in Illinois ... Fracking relies on high pressure chemical and water injections to release oil and ...
Care2.com
October 26, 2017
In fracking and other so-called UOG processes, a concoction of water, sand and a host of chemicals is channeled at high pressure directly into ...
EcoWatch
October 25, 2017
During the fracking process, a mixture of water, sand and chemicals is directed at high pressures into shale beds to release petroleum ...
The Guardian
October 24, 2017
Pollutants released during fracking processes could pose a health risk to infants and children, according to researchers studying chemicals ...
Santa Barbara Edhat
October 19, 2017
Oil and gas companies are currently required to report the chemicals used for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” but do not have to report ...
Broomfield Enterprise
October 19, 2017
The most common health risk associated with the chemical affects the ... The CU study examined frequency of use of fracking chemicals and ...
The Real News Network
October 19, 2017
With us to discuss the chemical giant, and fracking billionaire James ... This built a huge empire starting with chemicals, specialty chemicals ...
Florida Politics (blog)
October 11, 2017
Dana Young's latest try to ban fracking in Florida. ... the drilling technique involves shooting water and chemicals deep underground, breaking ...
Tribune-Review
October 11, 2017
Food and Water Watch to discuss fracking in Oakmont tonight ... rock deep in the ground with high-pressure water, sand and chemicals.
Florida Politics (blog)
October 11, 2017
Acid fracking – similar to hydraulic fracturing, with chemicals subbed in for water pressure to break through the rocks – is also expressly banned ...
Elko Daily Free Press
October 10, 2017
Fracking has accelerated dramatically in the U.S. as new technologies and potentially toxic chemicals have been employed to increase its ...
The Independent Barents Observer
October 10, 2017
In the US fracking has attracted criticism due to the use of chemicals that critics fear risk entering the water supply. LKAB, however, claims that ...
Markets Insider
October 8, 2017
Industry experts have vocalized for years that the cost per barrel is directly tied to regulations about fracking water. Genesis Research and ...
ABC Online
October 7, 2017
They said they feared cross-contamination between aquifers, loss of water pressure and contamination by chemicals used in the fracking ...
Markets Insider
October 6, 2017
It costs $48 to transport and eliminate those four barrels of fracking ... a game-changing technology that eliminates the use of chemicals and ...
Natural Resources Defense Council
October 5, 2017
The BLM fracking rules were finalized in 2015 after an extensive ... wastewater is properly managed, and chemicals used in fracking are ...
KCUR
December 31, 1999
So what is saltwater injection and what is fracking? .... it can contain chemicals — including those found in fracking fluid — and residual oil and ...
Chemical Watch
December 31, 1999
Chemicals used in fracking may cause adverse neurological and developmental effects in babies and children, they said in a review article.
The Denver Post
December 31, 1999
A large Crestone Peak Resources drilling operation, with large noise dampening walls, has Longs Peak in the background near Frederick.
