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Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known.

Activists Pledge to Resist Any Federal Effort to Lift Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin

Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations

$A natural gas compressor station on a hillside Septem in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. The area is situated above the Marcellus Shale, where a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into horizontally drilled wells to stimulate the release of the gas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.$

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known.

By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous

Activists Pledge to Resist Any Federal Effort to Lift Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin

By Jon Hurdle

Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations

By Kiley Bense

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Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known.

By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous

Activists Pledge to Resist Any Federal Effort to Lift Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin

By Jon Hurdle

Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations

By Kiley Bense

Pennsylvania’s Gas Industry Used 160 Million Pounds of Secret Chemicals From 2012 to 2022, a New Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

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