Your organic fruits and veggies might have been irrigated with fracking wastewater

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By Josh HarkinsonAug 20, 2015, 12:04 pm36 pts
$photo of Your organic fruits and veggies might have been irrigated with fracking wastewater image$ This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s organics standards, written 15 years ago, strictly ban petroleum-derived fertilizers commonly used in conventional agriculture. But the same rules do not…

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