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Records Show Widespread Use of Secret Fracking Chemicals is aLooming Risk for Delaware River Basin, Pennsylvania Communities

September 12, 2018

Between 2013 and 2017, drilling companies injected at least one hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) chemical with an identity kept hidden from the public into more than 2,500 unconventional natural gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania, amounting to 55 percent of the more than 4,500 unconventional gas wells drilled in the state during the five-year period, primarily in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. In total, companies injected secret fracking chemicals 13,632 times into 2,515 wells. Exemptions in Pennsylvania law virtually guarantee that the use of secret chemicals in the state’s oil and gas wells was higher than detailed in this report.

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