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Pollution From a Pennsylvania Landfill Caused Problems for Decades. Fracking Waste Made It Worse

Inside Climate News · By Kiley Bense · last updated
As production of natural gas soared, so has the fracking industry’s production of toxic and often radioactive waste.

By Kiley Bense

YUKON, Pa.—In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted in moss.