Environmental advocates’ efforts to make changes to the way New York regulates solid waste came up short as the state Department of Environmental Conservation on Sept. 20 finalized regulations governing solid waste management that would allow the practice of using fracking waste in landfill and roadways to continue.
A coalition of groups—which include the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Earthjustice, Earthworks, Environmental Advocates of New York, Food & Water Watch, New York Public Interest Research Group and Riverkeeper Inc.—had sought to make changes to the final rules governing solid waste management to prevent waste from hydraulic fracturing in neighboring states from ending up in New York landfills, or from being used to deice roadways (NYLJ, June 12).
