New York: Close the Fracking Waste Loophole!

New York banned fracking, but it's still accepting fracking waste from Pennsylvania at water treatment facilities and landfills, as well as using it as road de-icer. This waste is incredibly hazardous to people's health and the environment.

The good news? This year, New York can pass a bill that would classify fracking waste as hazardous, so that it can't be freely spread around our state and threaten our water quality.

The bill has already passed through the Senate; now it's up to our Assembly members and Governor Cuomo to close the hazardous waste loophole so that fracking waste is recognized for the dangers it presents.

Time is short, since the legislative session ends on June 19.

Take action today! Tell your Assembly member to sponsor A.2655 to classify waste from oil and gas as hazardous!

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New York: Close the Fracking Waste Loophole!

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Please support the Hazardous Waste Loophole Bill (S.3392/A.2655) to stop the oil and gas industry from freely dumping its toxic waste from drilling and fracking in New York.

Even though New York banned fracking, over 600,000 tons of waste from drilling operations in Pennsylvania came into New York for disposal, between 2011 and 2017, finding their way into our wastewater treatment facilities and landfills, and even being spread directly on roadways as a de-icer.

This fracking waste can contain radioactive elements like radium, radon, and barium, as well as known or suspected carcinogens. Because the industry isn't required to disclose what's in this fracking and drilling wastewater, its treatment, disposal, storage, and transportation can be very dangerous. Despite this fact, the oil and gas industry continue to freely send this waste throughout New York and put our waterways and environment at risk.

Fracking waste must be treated as the hazardous waste it is. Please put the public's right to clean water and livable climate ahead of oil and gas industry interests.

As your constituent, I urge you to co-sponsor the Hazardous Waste Loophole Bill (S.3392/A.2655) and reverse the misguided policies that allow fracking waste to be dumped throughout New York.

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