Environmental Groups Start Legal Process to Sue EPA over Fracking Waste

"A coalition of groups have banded together to push the EPA to regulate wastewater disposal from oil and gas drilling."

"A number of leading environmental organizations filed a legal notice with the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday demanding that the agency stop what they say is improper disposal of drilling and fracking waste by oil and gas companies.

'We're asking that EPA finally do what it found to be necessary back in 1988: update the regulations for oil and gas wastes,' Adam Kron, attorney at the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), said in a statement. 'The oil and gas industry has grown rapidly since then, and yet EPA has repeatedly shirked its duties for nearly three decades. The public deserves better protection than this.'

The groups filing the notice letter include EIP, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Earthworks, Responsible Drilling Alliance, San Juan Citizens Alliance, West Virginia Surface Owners Rights Organization, and the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. The groups are calling on the EPA to update waste disposal rules that they say should have been revised more than a quarter-century ago."

Phil McKenna reports for InsideClimate News August 26, 2015.

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