The US oil industry continues to struggle to solve its wastewater problem, and a newly proposed bill could make wastewater disposal even more difficult.
Hydraulic fracturing, the technology that made the United States the world’s top oil and gas producer, has earned a really bad rap. Much of this ill reputation has had to do with increased seismic activity in shale oil and gas regions. But research cited by the US Geological Survey showed a few years ago that it’s not fracking itself that is the problem.
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