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New Jersey Gov. Christie Vetoes Bill Aiming Ban Fracking Waste in State
2014-08-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star-Ledger: For the second time in two years, Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have banned the dumping of fracking waste in New Jersey. Environmentalists and lawmakers from both parties had championed the measure, which would have prohibited companies from treating, discharging, disposing, and storing waste from hydraulic fracturing - the controversial practice of pumping water, sand, and chemicals deep underground to harvest natural gas. Though an increase in fracking has caused U.S. energy...
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