PODCAST: Don’t Just Throw Away That Fracking Wastewater

Fracking involves shooting water deep underground to break open oil and gas formations. Most of that water comes back up to the surface eventually. What are we supposed to do with it?

In most cases, it gets sent back underground for storage. But some states are looking at ways to recycle this water, or at least treat it so it doesn’t pollute lakes, rivers, and oceans.

Some environmental groups are actually on board with this, mainly because storing fracking wastewater underground isn’t that great either—it can contaminate groundwater supplies and even cause earthquakes.

But Nichole Saunders, ...