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Report: How Much Would Trump’s Climate Rule Rollbacks Worsen Health and Emissions?
This article discusses How Much Trump’s Climate Rule Rollbacks Would Worsen Health and Emissions. Using government data, a new analysis adds up the harm to humans and the climate from scrapping 6 greenhouse gas rules involving cars, power plants and oil and gas.
The report, released Tuesday, homes in on […]
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China’s garbage ban upends US recycling – is it time to reconsider incineration? NO!
This article pushes incineration as the solution to China’s decision not to accept recyclables. It suggests incineration is the answer, a really bad idea. It glosses over the problems caused by incinerators, namely really bad toxic emissions like dioxins, called the most hazardous pollutant ever made, and CO2. It […]
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NYS Exposed: Fracking waste dumped in Finger Lakes landfill
Hundreds of trucks roll into the Seneca Meadows landfill in Seneca Falls every day, dumping your garbage. But environmental advocates say, for years, trucks carried construction debris straight from Pennsylvania fracking sites.
http://www.whec.com/news/fracking-waste-local-landfill-seneca-meadows/4526219/
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Allegany Co. landfill took ‘tons’ of fracking waste
ANGELICA, N.Y. — Hyland Landfill in Allegany Co. was one of several that took a combined 600,000 tons of fracking ‘waste’ sin ce 2010, according to an updated report from an environmental group.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/allegany-co-landfill-took-tons-of-fracking-waste/448516319
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Even stiff fines no substitute for criminal charges in illegal dumping of fracking waste
Out-of-state radioactive material was illegally taken to Blue Ridge Landfill in Estill County, across Ky. 89 from Estill County High School and Middle School. The state announced civil penalties Monday for those involved in dumping, transporting and brokering the waste that went to Estill and Greenup counties.
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New York state’s gaping fracking waste loophole
Two years after it led the nation in banning high-volume fracking to protect public health, New York State still permits upstate landfills to import vast quantities of drilling waste from fracked natural gas wells in Pennsylvania. DC Bureau, District of Columbia. Oct 12 2016
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Antero Resources still waiting on landfill approval
If Antero doesn’t get approval for the landfill, the company will have to haul salt produced in the fracking process to other landfills, he said.
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Hot mess: States struggle to deal with radioactive fracking waste
Potentially dangerous drilling byproducts are being dumped in landfills throughout the Marcellus Shale with few controls. Center for Public Integrity, Ohio Valley ReSource. Jun 20 2016
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Groups urge DEC to toughen frack waste disposal rules from Pa. drill sites
Critics of natural gas hydrofracking called on the state Thursday to toughen rules that allow fracking companies in Pennsylvania to send low-level radioactive fracking waste for disposal at up to seven landfills in central New York. Albany Times Union, New York. 6 February 2015.
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Groups-urge-DEC-to-toughen-frack-waste-disposal-6065503.php
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New York landfills accept 460,000 tons of Pennsylvania drilling waste
At least 460,000 tons and 23,000 barrels of waste from Pennsylvania drilling operations have been taken in by a few New York landfills since 2010, a new analysis Thursday indicates. Lower Hudson Valley Journal News, New York. 6 February 2015.
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