"Spraying roads with “produced water,” highly saline wastewater containing proprietary drilling chemicals as well as benzene, arsenic and radium 226 and 228, both radioactive isotopes, has been outlawed in #Pennsylvania since 2016."
“The reality is, even though dumping on roads is illegal, it is happening all the time, every day,” said Hess.
Right?
That's why the state has banned it. But unless they enforce the ban, it will keep happening: so much cheaper than paying to put it into a reservoir in, say, Texas.