A new paper co-written by Yilan Xu, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, shows that the growing traffic burden in shale energy boomtowns from trucks hauling wastewater to disposal sites resulted in a surge of road fatalities and severe accidents.
Paper: Disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses dangers to drivers
- EurekAlert
- 2. 3 2020 (06:00)