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- In Fracking's Wake
New Rules are Needed to Protect Our Health and Environment from Contaminated Wastewater
Issue Paper - Natural gas development has exploded, fueled by advances in an extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Unfortunately, federal and state safeguards to protect people and the environment from the hazards of fracking have not kept pace.
Documents Tagged wastewater in All Sections
- Another Cost of Sprawl
The Effects of Land Use on Wastewater Utility Costs
Report - A 1998 NRDC study that adds to the growing body of literature demonstrating that low-density sprawl development is costly, inefficient, and inequitable.
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Recent Water Posts
- State's Refusal to Use Sound Science Continues to Delay the Bay Delta Conservation Plan
- posted by Doug Obegi, 4/29/13
- Floods, Droughts and Agriculture
- posted by Ben Chou, 4/29/13
- Home Run! Appeals Court Upholds EPA Action to Stop Giant, Polluting Mountaintop Removal Mine
- posted by Jon Devine, 4/25/13
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