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XTO Energy to Pay $3M to Restore Fracking Areas

December 26, 2014December 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the US’ largest holder of natural gas reserves, will spend an estimated $3 million to restore eight sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands in connection with hydraulic fracturing operations, according to the EPA and the US Department ... Read more »

Freedom Industries Indicted for W.Va. Chemical Spill

December 23, 2014December 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Freedom Industries and six former Freedom officials have been charged with various federal crimes related to the January 2014 West Virginia chemical spill that left 300,000 people without drinking water, EHS Today reports. The company itself is charged with the negligent discharge of a pollutant in violation of the Clean ... Read more »

Company Fined $1.6M for Oil Spill Violations

October 31, 2014October 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Superior Crude Gathering has agreed to pay a $1.61 million civil penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act stemming from a 2010 crude oil spill from tanks at Superior’s oil storage facility in Ingleside, Texas. The United States’ complaint alleges that Superior Crude discharged at least 2,200 barrels ... Read more »

Tracers Developed for Tracking Frack Fluids

October 20, 2014October 17, 2014 by Ken Jennison

A team of US and French scientists have developed geochemical tracers that can identify hydraulic fracturing flowback fluids that have been spilled or released into the environment, giving oil and gas drillers a new tool for monitoring water quality near their operations. The tracers have been field-tested at a spill ... Read more »

EPA to Water Managers: Support Waters of the US Rule

October 1, 2014December 15, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

EPA chief Gina McCarthy has asked water and wastewater professionals to support the agency’s Waters of the US rule. The Times-Picayune reports McCarthy was in New Orleans earlier this week seeking support from some 18,000 water managers and technicians. The rule, proposed jointly by EPA and the Army Corps of ... Read more »

EPA Publishes Cooling Water Intake Rules

August 18, 2014August 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The EPA is moving forward with rules to protect fish from being sucked into cooling water intakes at large power plants and factories. The EPA had said it was finalizing the standards in May, but did not publish them in the Federal Register until Thursday. The final rule establishes requirements ... Read more »

Stormwater Filter Standard in the Works

August 5, 2014August 4, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A proposed new ASTM International standard will offer a means to reduce the impact of contaminated stormwater entering local drains. WK45326, Specification for Stormwater Catch Basin Filter, will aid community developments, sports facilities, fairgrounds, stadiums and factories in complying with EPA clean water initiatives, the standards and certification organization says. ... Read more »

Evoqua Traveling Screens Enable Cooling Water Intake Rule Compliance

June 12, 2014June 11, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Evoqua Water Technologies’ EPA designated BTA modified Ristroph fish handling traveling screens can help industrial manufacturing facilities and power utilities comply with the EPA’s finalized rules for cooling water intake structures, the water and wastewater treatment company says. The finalized ruling under Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act requires ... Read more »

EPA Memo Suggests Tighter Fracking Wastewater Rules

May 30, 2014May 29, 2014 by Leon Walker

A draft EPA memo leaked to DeSmogBlog.com details stricter standards for hydraulic fracturing permitting and makes clear that fracking wastewater discharges are covered under the Clean Water Act. The document sets limits to protect water-quality and technology standards in the Clean Water Act. Clean Water Action attorney Myron Arnowitt, who reviewed the document ... Read more »

Satellite Image Can Provide Clean Water Act Compliance

May 22, 2014October 15, 2018 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Blue Water Satellite says its algorithmically enhanced satellite imagery gives industrial plants and power plants a less costly way to demonstrate Clean Water Act 316(a) compliance, compared to physical sampling/temperature model building approaches, and also provides a more accurate picture of water temperatures across a larger area of the water ... Read more »

EPA Finalizes Cooling Water Intake Standards

May 20, 2014May 20, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The EPA has finalized standards for cooling water intakes at large power plants and factories. “This impacts a number of manufacturing facilities, and each one is going to be different,” Chip Yost, assistant vice president for energy at the National Association of Manufacturers, told Bloomberg News. “We’ll have to see ... Read more »

Quala Adds Commercial Wastewater Treatment

May 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Quala has added commercial wastewater treatment and disposal as a new business segment at many of its locations. The company provides containers to chemical, oil and gas, transportation, food and beverage, automotive and environmental services industries. Quala’s says its wastewater management program encompasses a broad range of efforts that promote ... Read more »

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