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Texas Sheriff Is on Mission to End Illegal Dumping of Frack Waste

2014-07-01 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: Deputy Sheriff Hector Zertuche parked his pickup across the road from a gas and oil waste dump and watched through binoculars as a container truck unloaded a mountain of black sludge. Zertuche, the environmental crimes officer for Jim Wells County, is the law here when it comes to oil and gas waste. The job has fallen to him, he said, because the state's environmental agencies don't effectively police the disposal of the industry's waste. It typically contains benzene and other chemicals found...

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