Pennsylvania Treatment Plant Settles Suit Over Treatment of Gas Drilling Wastewater

摘要

A Pennsylvania municipal water treatment plant has agreed not to accept wastewater from shale gas or coalbed methane operations unless the water meets certain conditions, under terms of a settlement reached with two environmental groups (Clean Water Action v. Municipal Authority ofMcKees-port, W.D. Pa., No. 11-940, settlement announced 5/1/12).