Trump Officials Urged to Stop Dumping of Offshore Fracking Waste Into Gulf of Mexico

Trump Officials Urged to Stop Dumping of Offshore Fracking Waste Into Gulf of Mexico: Center for Biological Diversity: Record Request Shows Agency Ignoring Risks to Gulf Wildlife
(Kristen MONSELL, Center for Biological Diversity; July 11, 2017)

Groups Sue EPA Over Dangerous Drilling and Fracking Waste
[Press Release, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); May 4, 2016]
https://www.nrdc.org/media/2016/160504



Selected Research Publications:



Wastewater Disposal Wells, Fracking, and Environmental Injustice in Southern Texas
(JOHNSON et al., 2016)
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303000

Troubled Waters
(Center of Biological Diversity; September 2014)
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/offshore_fracking/pdfs/Troubled_Waters.pdf



U. S. EPA:



The NPDES General Permit for New and Existing Sources and New Dischargers in the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category for the Western Portion of the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico (GMG290000)
https://www3.epa.gov/region6/water/npdes/genpermit/gmg290000final/gmg290000finalpermit2012.pdf


Map:


Interactive Map:  Fracked Wells in the Gulf of Mexico
(Curt BRADLEY, CARTO; 2016)
https://curtbradley.carto.com/viz/c31983fe-3cb3-11e6-9a00-0e787de82d45/embed_map

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