Fracking and the Contamination of Groundwater

A must-read Los Angeles Times story by Neela Banerjee demonstrates that — once again — the Obama administration put the kibosh on a key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) groundwater contamination, this time in Dimock, Pennsylvania. Though EPA said Dimock’s water wasn’t contaminated by fracking in a 2012 election year desk statement, internal documents … Continue reading Fracking and the Contamination of Groundwater