
MDN has been writing about a privately-owned dump near Scranton, the Keystone Sanitary Landfill, for the past decade (
see our stories here). Although the dump accepts all sorts of toxic substances, one of the more benign waste streams it accepts is drill cuttings from Marcellus Shale drillers. Anti-fossil fuelers would have you believe those cuttings are radioactive and will make you glow in the dark. It's bogus. But now the state's anti-fossil fuel Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, is investigating Keystone looking for evidence of radioactivity.
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