Media mention: ‘Study: Drilling waste on Pennsylvania roads bad for health, land’

June 30, 2022

Where: Chesapeake Bay Journal, “Study: Drilling waste on Pennsylvania roads bad for health, land

Who: William Burgos, professor of environmental engineering

What: William Burgos, professor of environmental engineering, was recently quoted in a story by the Chesapeake Bay Journal discussing his research into the effectiveness of conventional oil and gas brine as a dust suppressant. Burgos and other Penn State researchers recently submitted a study to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, in which they found that the brine is not an effective dust suppressant and could have negative environmental impacts.

 

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“While we must be willing to accept the trade-offs between the benefits of dust suppression and the drawback of environmental impacts, this research has found that oil and wastewaters only provide drawbacks.”

— William Burgos, professor of environmental engineering