Natural Resources Radiation Waste 
PA Environment Daily
JULY 27, 2021
By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 24, 2022
Residual Waste General Permit WMGR163 , mandated by the General Assembly, allows “temporary” oil and gas liquid waste processing, storage and transfer facilities for unconventional oil and gas operations to “pop-up” within 300 feet of dwellings with no advanced public notice was published in the June 25 PA Bulletin as final.
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PA Environment Daily
APRIL 28, 2025
The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 2, 2025
He pointed to a series of medical visits and diagnoses medical professionals called, hydraulic fracking/volatile hydrocarbon exposure, respiratory irritation from hydrocarbon exposure, neurotoxicity, and radiation exposure.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 29, 2021
In 2020, Justin Nobel wrote an expose of fracking’s radioactivity, in particular in the wastewater and other wastes produced by natural gas drilling. The Delaware RiverKeeper Network is hosting an August 18 webinar Radioactivity In Fracking - Too Hot To Handle with scientist and author Justin Nobel from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Sara Innamorato (D-Allegheny) co-chaired a hearing by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on the environmental and health dangers associated with oil and gas drilling waste in Pennsylvania. We are concerned because radium-226 and radium-228, both present in oil and gas waste, can cause bone and connective tissue cancer.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 26, 2021
In an effort to further protect Pennsylvania’s waterways and drinking water, the Department of Environmental Program announced it will soon require all Pennsylvania landfills – including those that accept unconventional oil and gas waste – to conduct quarterly testing of leachate for radiological contaminants.
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