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Pa. official: End nears for wastewater releases
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 24th, 2011
Associated Press: Pennsylvania's top environmental regulator says he is confident that the natural gas industry is just weeks away from ending one of its more troubling environmental practices: the discharge of vast amounts of polluted brine into rivers used for drinking water. On Tuesday, the state's new Republican administration called on drillers to stop using riverside treatment plants to get rid of the millions of barrels of ultra-salty, chemically tainted wastewater that gush annually from gas wells. As drillers...
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Scientists see pattern in Texas’ bad wildfire year
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 24th, 2011
Sacramento Bee: Texas horizons have been red lately, but not from great sunsets.
Wildfires have burned roughly 1.4 million acres and destroyed nearly 200 homes this year during one of the state's worst droughts and through its driest March.
The manifold Texas calamities take on an apocalyptic, Mad Max quality, with exhausted firefighters attacking flames taller than they are and whole towns on alert for evacuation.
Scientists say the immediate cause is a La Nina, a recurring, months-long pattern that blocks...