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Twenty years into fracking, Pennsylvania has yet to reckon with its radioactive waste
21 Dec 2025 04:46 GMT
… changes specifically aimed at the fracking industry. Landfills have been … —including radioactive screening, characterization, and reporting,” he said.
A hydraulic fracturing pad … produced by fracking in Pennsylvania is more radioactive than previously …
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Twenty years into fracking, Pennsylvania has yet to reckon with its radioactive waste
21 Dec 2025 05:09 GMT
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West Virginia’s Radioactive Party Zone
11 Dec 2025 22:27 GMT
… “reused during the drilling and hydraulic fracturing process. It can be reused … directly behind Fairmont Brine’s radioactive fracking wastewater pond. He vividly recalled … is the site of the radioactive fracking waste pond, where company divers …
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Toxic secrets buried in Ohio: Lawsuit exposes how fracking waste threatens drinking water
21 Nov 2025 12:31 GMT
… dangerous love affair with fracking, highlighting how the … potentially heavy metals and radioactive material in some cases. … historically permissive approach to fracking under former Governor John … term economic benefits of fracking.
Listen to the discussion …
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Why fracking firms should pay for a $100-million water pipeline
04 Nov 2025 01:19 GMT
… , hydrocarbons, carcinogenic compounds and even radioactive elements, it cannot be discharged … organization Stand.earth.
Typically during fracking, roughly between one-third and … unprecedented and sustained increase in fracking operations for decades to come …
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Along the Banks of the Mon River, Fracking Waste in a Landfill Once Again Poses a Pollution Problem
07 Oct 2025 02:12 GMT
… picked up contaminants from fracking waste, including drill … radium, a naturally occurring radioactive element.
A 2011 analysis … as “hazardous” or “radioactive.”
Despite these characteristics, Congress … study showing that radioactive materials accumulate in …
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The Very Real Problem of Fracking Wastewater
29 Sep 2025 15:09 GMT
… , which must undergo extensive hydraulic fracturing (often called fracking) before the oil can … laden with fracking chemicals and salt, toxic minerals, and radioactivity (from the … came from shale wells requiring hydraulic fracturing. An estimated 0.8 and …
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Fracking wastewater now endangers both drinking water and the wells that regurgitate the wastewater
28 Sep 2025 21:17 GMT
… which must undergo extensive hydraulic fracturing (often called fracking) before the oil can … laden with fracking chemicals and salt, toxic minerals and radioactivity (from the … came from shale wells requiring hydraulic fracturing. An estimated 0.8 and …
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Traditional Owners, climate activists call on WA Labor to ban fracking
12 Sep 2025 11:05 GMT
… Owner Nuriah Jadai said: “Fracking for oil and gas threatens … waterways with toxic chemicals and radioactive wastewater and we don… faced a widespread campaign against fracking, which arose because of … and, in 2018, banned fracking in the Perth, Peel, …
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Why Britain’s fracking ban must be scrapped
09 Sep 2025 01:11 GMT
… since 2019.
Fracking refers to the hydraulic fracturing of shale rock … have raised concerns that fracking could lead to … supplies.
Contamination – especially the radioactive sort – certainly needs to … consensus prevails – that fracking is just too damned …