Oftentimes produced water from hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale region is not treated and disposed of properly because drilling companies are taking advantage of loose regulations. Hydraulic fracturing is exempt from many federal regulations, including the Federal Safe Water Drinking Act, which allows drilling companies to be careless when dealing with their produced water. However, some western states such as Wyoming, Utah, and Texas have strong regulatory frameworks that allow hydraulic fracturing to thrive, but in a safer manner. If local and state governments in the Marcellus Shale region tailor a plan similar to the ones of Wyoming, Utah, and Texas, then hydraulic fracturing could flourish throughout the United States.

Creator

• Casey, Brendan
• Pershken, Julia
• Porter, Derek
• McDonald-Schwartz, Annie
• Sharp, Tara

Contributors

• Wulf, Sharon A.
• Rosbach, Derren

Subject

• The World's Water

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• GPS1202

Year

• 2013

Date created

• 2013-01-01

Resource type

• Poster

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Last modified

• 2023-10-10