Chemists Discover Range of Environmental Contaminants in Fracking Wastewater | UToledo News

(Christine BILLAU, University of Toledo News; February 18, 2022)

https://news.utoledo.edu/index.php/02_18_2022/chemists-discover-a-range-of-environmental-contaminants-in-fracking-wastewater#:~:text=As%20companies%20that%20drill%20for,many%20environmental%20contaminants%20including%20organic

Featured Research Article:

Unraveling the Complex Composition of Produced Water by Specialized Extraction Methods (EMMONS et al., 2022)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c05826

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Also…

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater (Lisa GROSS, Inside Climate News; October 24, 2021)

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102021/california-oil-wastewater-produced-water-drought-groundwater-contamination/

Selected Research Articles:

Geochemical and geophysical indicators of oil and gas wastewater can trace potential exposure pathways following releases to surface waters (COZZARELLI et al., 2021)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720364391

Occurrences and Sources of Radium in Groundwater Associated with Oil Fields in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California (MCMAHON et al., 2019)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.9b02395

Radium attenuation and mobilization in stream sediments following oil and gas wastewater disposal in western Pennsylvania (VAN SICE et al., 2018)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S0883292718302956

Website:

National Produced Waters Geochemical Database (USGS)

https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/pwapp/