The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has asked Marcellus producers to stop disposing of their wastewater streams at the remaining treatment facilities in the state: "At the direction of Governor Tom Corbett, acting Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer today called on all Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling operators to cease by May 19 delivering wastewater from shale gas extraction to 15 facilities that currently accept it under special provisions of last year’s Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) regulations."
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