"Poor, Minorities Carry The Burden Of Frack Waste In South Texas"

"Poor, heavily Hispanic neighborhoods shoulder a disproportionate fracking wastewater burden in Texas' booming Eagle Ford".

"Chavel Lopez lives just a few miles north of Texas' Eagle Ford—one of the many regions in the country recently given a makeover from the fracking industry. "I just have to drive a bit south and see the wells and the flames," he said.

For Lopez, rather than a booming industry, these are signs of yet another pollution burden for the region's people of color.

"We already had issues. Right here in San Antonio, fuel storage tanks were all located on the eastside, predominantly African American neighborhoods," he said. "For some of these Hispanic neighborhoods, they were already dealing with uranium mining impacts and now the fracking of oil and gas."

And new evidence supports his fears: Poor and minority neighborhoods bear a disproportionate share of fracking wastewater wells in South Texas' Eagle Ford play, according to a new study."

Brian Bienkowski reports for Environmental Health News February 3, 2016.