CCM continues push for local fracking-waste bans
With a state-level ban on hydraulic fracturing waste still uncertain, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) stepped up its efforts to enact bans at the municipal level.
CCM on Thursday released a model ordinance for cities and towns that would create a local ban on the use, sale and transport of “fracking waste” -- which is wastewater, sludge and other materials produced as byproducts of a method of extracting natural gas f ...