EPA Approves Texas Plan to Regulate Wastewater From Fracking

摘要

Texas is shifting which state agency will oversee and enforce the release of treated oil and gaswastewater, after the EPA on Friday approved Friday a state plan over the objections ofenvironmental groups.The Environmental Protection Agency signed off on a plan to delegate authority to the TexasCommission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, which allows the agency to take over oversight ofthe discharges of wastewater from oil and gas drilling from the Texas Railroad Commission.