For the last year, the city of Warren has been exercising the benefit of a permit allowing them to dump 100,000 gallons of fracking brine into the Mahoning River every day.
When the city appealed the permit, asking permission to allow even more brine to be dumped into the waterway, Ohio's Attorney General and EPA Director stepped in and are working to repeal the permit altogether.
The practice of river-dumping the toxic fracking brine is expected to end soon as it is replaced with dumping into injection wells.
Is the practice of injection well dumping safer for stakeholders?
No one actually knows! Some of the injection wells are near streams and in watersheds, but dumping the brine into the ground offers the illusion of safety, and it's out of site - out of mind - at least until people in the surrounding area start getting sick.
For now, though, it's a small victory for people living downstream from Warren, Ohio, that someone is working to protect them from the brine toxins currently being dumped in Warren.
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