Although all states, localities and municipal treatment plants currently refuse untreated produced water, the EPA hopes the proposal will provide regulatory certainty for those municipalities receiving requests from the gas and oil industry.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing pretreatment standards for extraction water — the drilling wastewater, produced sand and produced water — from fracking and horizontal drilling. The proposal would essentially ban municipal wastewater treatment plants from...
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