A law suit was filed on Wednesday by several environmental and community organizations to put pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency to make stricter rules regarding management and disposal of drilling and hydraulic fracking waste.

The lawsuit by seven organizations in U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks for stern, pending deadlines for the EPA to assume restructured rules for oil and gas waste disposal. It says they are overdue for about thirty years. The lawsuit states that a regulatory revamp is needed by the U. S. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Adam Kron, senior attorney at the Environmental Integrity Project said, "Each well now generates millions of gallons of wastewater and hundreds of tons of solid wastes, and yet EPA's inaction has kept the most basic, inadequate rules in place. The public deserves better than this." It is one of the organizations that filed the lawsuit. Mr. Kron also said that the agency's duty was to make continuous revisions which it decided were essential but it has done nothing.

Julia Valentine, a spokeswoman for EPA said the agency does not comment on matters related to litigations.

The groups are looking for more stern regulations for safety and in order to protect public health that is facing threat from the increasing amount of waste including cancer causing chemicals and radioactive waste in drilling mud. The dangers increase with disposal of drilling wastewater and fracking flow back water that goes into the underground injection wells. There are almost 30,000 injection wells in the U. S taking two billion gallons of wastewater every day.