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In West Virginia, Plan to Clean up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends in Monster Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S. In 2011, a Colorado newspaper reported on a controversy in Eagle County involving disposal of Antero’s pit liners, which are used to contain oilfield waste at the drill site and can be coated in contaminants.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

In fact, there are so many crops getting irrigated , water is evaporating off them and cooling summer days in parts of the Midwest, like central Wisconsin, countering some of the warming from climate change. Northeast are especially at risk, and the region’s aging stormwater and sewage infrastructure only makes matters worse.