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Hydraulic Fracking in California: New Report Addresses Wastewater and Potential Water Impacts by Jayni Foley Hein for Legal Planet: The Environmental Law and Policy Blog Today, Berkeley Law released a new report on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in California, [...]
USGS: Recent Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade” Report Implicates Oil and Natural Gas Drilling By Dusty Horwitt and Alex Formuzis for EWG Washington, D.C. – A U.S. Geological Survey research team has linked oil and natural gas drilling operations [...]
EPA Sees Risks to Water, Workers In New York Fracking Rules by Joaquin Sapien for ProPublica New York’s emerging plan to regulate natural gas drilling in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale needs to go further to safeguard drinking water, [...]
EPA Plans to Issue Rules Covering Fracking Wastewater by Nicholas Kusnetz for ProPublica The EPA took another step toward tightening oversight of hydraulic fracturing today, announcing it would initiate a process to set national rules for treating wastewater discharged from gas [...]
The EPA proposal estimates that fracking uses 70 to 140 billion gallons of water annually, or about the same amount used by one or two cities of 2.5 million people. In the Barnett Shale, in Texas, the agency estimates fracking for gas drilling consumes nearly 2 percent of all the water used in the area.
The EPA proposal estimates that fracking uses 70 to 140 billion gallons of water annually, or about the same amount used by one or two cities of 2.5 million people. In the Barnett Shale, in Texas, the agency estimates fracking for gas drilling consumes nearly 2 percent of all the water used in the area.