A memo released earlier this year in West Virginia gives the state’s landfills the ability to accept unlimited amounts of fracking waste, the AP reports. The memo will create an exception for the state’s natural gas industry to longstanding laws on landfill waste, which stipulate that landfills can only take 10,000 or 30,000 tons of solid waste
West Virginia Landfills Will Now Accept Often Radioactive Fracking Waste
West Virginia’s Marcellus Formation has been found to have a higher level of radioactivity than other formations.