EPA Administrator Forecasts Potential Shift on Bush-Era Drilling Loophole
Signaling the potential for an important policy reversal, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a congressional hearing on Tuesday that the agency would consider revisiting its controversial position that a popular natural gas drilling technique doesn't harm groundwater.
A 2004 study (PDF) conducted by the EPA concluded that hydraulic fracturing -- a process that involves pummeling the earth with millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to extract natural gas -- causes "no … more…
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Joaquin Sapien was a reporter for The Center for Public Integrity from 2005 until earlier this year. He was the lead reporter on a year-long investigative project on “Superfund’s Toxic Legacy,” which just received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in non-deadline online independent reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists. Before joining CPI he wrote for Environmental Media Services.
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