Jump Back From The Frack Ohio
Woah! We need to stop accepting toxic fracking waste from other states and injecting it in the ground in Ohio. And we need to stop fracking in Ohio. We don’t even know what is in the fracking fluids yet! The research on what drinking water impacts will be isn’t even out yet! Slow down! We’ve got earthquakes going on in Youngstown! Fracking is the most unregulated industry in America. Check out the following information…. In addition to the infamous "Halliburton Loophole" exempting fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the gas industry benefits from a host of sweeping exemptions to our most basic environmental and public health protections. Other laws that the gas industry is exempted from include key provisions of the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, CERCLA (Superfund Act), Resource Conversation and Recovery Act (hazardous waste act), and the Environmental Policy Act. Between all these exemptions, the gas industry has often been described as completely free of all federal oversight. However, federal law does still prohibit the gas industry from one particular practice: the injection of diesel fuel as a fracking fluid. While gas companies are permitted to inject hundreds of known carcinogenic compounds as fracking fluids (without informing the public of what chemicals they are using), the Safe Drinking Water Act still mandated that gas companies not use diesel fuel as a frack fluid. But on January 31, 2011, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced their <b>…</b>
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