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  • Paper: Disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses dangers to drivers

    Mar 3, 2020 8:45 am by Phil CicioraResearch
    Yilan Xu, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics. Photo by L. B. Stauffer

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    Research from Professor Yilan Xu shows that the growing traffic burden in fracking boomtowns from trucks hauling wastewater to disposal sites resulted in a surge of road fatalities and severe accidents.

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