{"id":915,"date":"2014-10-31T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=915"},"modified":"2014-10-31T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:43:10","slug":"frack-waste-investigation-launched-by-pennsylvania-congressman-ecowatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Frack Waste Investigation Launched by Pennsylvania Congressman \u00bb EcoWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/10\/30\/fracking-waste-investigation\/\">Frack Waste Investigation Launched by Pennsylvania Congressman \u00bb EcoWatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">In light of an increasing number of studies showing that\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\">fracking<\/a>\u00a0produces toxic emissions that have serious<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/10\/06\/fracking-just-got-worse-health\/\">\u00a0human health impacts<\/a>\u00a0throughout the entire process,\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/local\/pennsylvania\/\">Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0Congressman<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/cartwright.house.gov\/\">Matt Cartwright<\/a>, a first-term Democrat, has\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/cartwright.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/cartwright-sends-letter-to-pa-acting-dep-secretary-regarding-fracking\" target=\"_blank\">opened an investigation<\/a>\u00a0into how toxic wastes from fracking are regulated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347677\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; background-color: #eeeeee; max-width: 610px; padding: 3px; margin: 0px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\"><span class=\"image-container wp-image-347677 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; max-width: 600px; max-height: 329px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-347677 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/frackpa1.jpg\" alt=\"What's at stake. Fracking has grown at a rapid rate in Pennsylvania, and operators are increasingly eying the state's public parks and forests while sit atop a major shale play. Photo credit: EcoFlight\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_347677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 0.875rem; padding: 0.1875rem 0.4375rem 0.1875rem 0.4375rem; margin: 0px;\">What\u2019s at stake. Fracking has grown at a rapid rate in Pennsylvania, and operators are increasingly eying the state\u2019s public parks and forests while sit atop a major shale play.\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecoflight.org\/\">Photo credit: EcoFlight<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">\u201cPreliminary reports indicate there are big gaps in protections and oversight that the federal government might have to fill,\u201d Cartwright told\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20141029\/pennsylvania-congressman-launches-frack-waste-investigation-concern-rises\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Climate News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Fracking is big business in Pennsylvania. As a result of its exponential growth in the last decade, the state is now the third largest producer of natural gas in the U.S. after Texas and Louisiana. But among the many questions surrounding such operations is how the wastewater\u2014the mix of water, chemicals and sand used to blast open the shale\u2014is disposed of. The waste has become something of a hot potato, with many states banning its disposal within their borders. Pennsylvania was among the states which tightened up its regulations so much of its waste is trucked to Ohio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frack Waste Investigation Launched by Pennsylvania Congressman \u00bb EcoWatch. In light of an increasing number of studies showing that\u00a0fracking\u00a0produces toxic emissions that have serious\u00a0human health impacts\u00a0throughout the entire process,\u00a0Pennsylvania\u00a0CongressmanMatt Cartwright, a first-term Democrat, has\u00a0opened an investigation\u00a0into how toxic wastes from fracking are regulated. What\u2019s at stake. Fracking has grown at a rapid rate in Pennsylvania, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[331,412,619],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}