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07/25/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

High levels of radioactivity persist in Pennsylvania stream sediments 7 years after fracking wastewater disposal was restricted

Three wastewater disposal sites in western Pennsylvania have been analyzed to contain as much as 650 times higher radioactive sediments than unaffected sites upstream. These numbers are made even more shocking considering that more than seven years have passed since Pennsylvania’s government restricted the disposal of fracking wastewater into these sites. Authors of the new […]

02/01/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Thanks to a leaky Iowa Pipeline, 140,000 gallons of diesel fuel just spilled into the Midwest

Worth County, Iowa, has a sticky situation on its hands with a ruptured pipeline that leaked — according to original estimates — approximately 140,000 gallons of diesel fuel into farmland on Wednesday with about a foot of snow already on the ground. The pipeline near Hanlontown is owned by Magellan Midstream Partners, and an investigation […]

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