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Report: Fracking operations dumping toxic chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico

July 15, 2021 -

In the past decade, the Gulf saw a fracking boom in its waters. Around 98 percent of all the offshore oil and gas produced in the U.S. came from fracking operations in the waters off Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. The federal government also approved at least 3,039 incidences of fracking and at least 760 incidences of acidizing in the area since 2010.

CBD used scientific studies and federal reports obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request ...

Is the EPA violating federal law over fracking waste? Environmentalists say they might be

January 05, 2019 -

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) criticized the EPA's draft permit for water pollution discharges in the Gulf. It argued that the agency did not think too hard about the environmental effects of chemicals and wastewater from fracking and acidizing operations.

In a letter written by its attorneys, the CBD pointed out that the EPA regulators did not fully understand the dangers of the chemicals used in offshore fracking and oil well treatments. Furthermore, ...

EPA giving oil companies the OK to dump fracking chemicals into Gulf of Mexico

March 04, 2019 - acidizing.”

The technologies have been used hundreds of times to enhance oil and gas production at hundreds of Gulf wells in recent years, and environmentalists say use of the technology could increase in the future as the industry seeks to maximize production in aging offshore fields.

The EPA has drafted a plan to continue allowing the dumping of harmful chemicals generated by this process into the Gulf, ignoring the potentially devastating impact on marine ...