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E.P.A. APPROVED FRACKING AGO NEW FILES FREE

Today’s lawsuit notes that the EPA’s issuance of the permit failed to comply with federal environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and National Environmental Policy Act. But we’re confident the court will set the record straight,” said Monsell. “The EPA is putting marine wildlife and coastal communities at risk by rubber-stamping the dumping of dangerous fracking chemicals into our oceans.

$e.p.a. approved fracking ago new files$

Federal documents revealed that oil companies dumped more than 75 billion gallons of wastewater into these waters in 2014 alone. Records also show that fracking has been on the rise in the Gulf and that the EPA has failed to conduct any meaningful review of the environmental impacts of dumping fracking waste into the water.

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E.P.A. APPROVED FRACKING AGO NEW FILES FREE

The EPA is supposed to protect water quality, not give oil companies free rein to use our oceans as their garbage disposal.”įederal waters in the western Gulf of Mexico host the largest concentration of offshore oil and gas drilling activities in the country. “The Trump administration is letting oil companies dump toxic fracking chemicals into the Gulf with no regard for the risks or the law,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center. The permit, finalized in September, allows oil companies to dump unlimited amounts of waste fluid, including chemicals used in fracking, into the Gulf of Mexico. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, challenges the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act permit for new and existing offshore oil and gas platforms operating in federal waters off Texas and Louisiana. NEW ORLEANS- The Center for Biological Diversity, Gulf Restoration Network and Louisiana Bucket Brigade today sued the Trump administration for permitting oil companies to dump waste from fracking and drilling into the Gulf of Mexico without evaluating the dangers to water quality, marine species or the environment. Those tests were not mandatory and there is no indication that they were carried out.Contact: Miyoko Sakashita, (510) 844-7108, Administration Sued for Letting Oil Companies Dump Offshore Fracking Waste Into Gulf of Mexico scientists recommended additional testing. scientists pointed to preliminary evidence that, under some conditions, the chemicals could “degrade in the environment” into substances akin to PFOA, a kind of PFAS chemical, and could “persist in the environment” and “be toxic to people, wild mammals, and birds.” The E.P.A. In a consent order issued for the three chemicals on Oct. The records, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by a nonprofit group, Physicians for Social Responsibility, are among the first public indications that PFAS, long-lasting compounds also known as “forever chemicals,” may be present in the fluids used during drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The E.P.A.’s approval of the three chemicals wasn’t previously publicly known.

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in 2011 approved the use of these chemicals, used to ease the flow of oil from the ground, despite the agency’s own grave concerns about their toxicity, according to the documents, which were reviewed by The New York Times. For much of the past decade, oil companies engaged in drilling and fracking have been allowed to pump into the ground chemicals that, over time, can break down into toxic substances known as PFAS - a class of long-lasting compounds known to pose a threat to people and wildlife - according to internal documents from the Environmental Protection Agency.

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E.p.a. approved fracking ago new files