The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways

The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways - Bucks County Beacon

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. BELLE VERNON, Pa.—Off a back road in the hilly country south of Pittsburgh, a tributary to the Monongahela River runs through overgrown vegetation and beneath an abandoned railroad trestle, downstream from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill. On a cool day in late …

A Messy Trail of Toxic Oil and Gas Waste

Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and reporter Kiley Bense as they discuss how Pennsylvania is failing to track toxic oil and gas waste, while the amount sitting in landfills grows every year.By Kiley BensePennsylvania is ground zero for the fracking boom. It’s increased natural gas production there 37-fold since 2008. That production generates a lot of waste, but the state’s ability to track it has failed to keep up.

The ‘toxic cocktail’ brewing in Pennsylvania’s waterways

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive. The post The ‘toxic cocktail’ brewing in Pennsylvania’s waterways appeared first on The Allegheny Front.