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Company Pleads Guilty To Illegal Dumping Of Fracking Waste

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,
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Published May 29, 2015 at 6:56 AM EDT
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A Youngstown company has pleaded guilty to illegally dumping fracking wastewater into a storm sewer 33 times between October 2012 and January 2013.  A judge fined the company, Hardrock Excavating, 75 thousand dollars. Company owner Ben Lupo pleaded guilty in March 2014 and was sentenced to 28 months in prison.

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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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