Friday, January 06, 2012

EPA may truck water to residents near fracking site

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-usa-fracking-epa-idUSTRE8041YE20120106

By Edward McAllister and Timothy Gardner
Fri Jan 6, 2012

Federal regulators are considering trucking fresh water to households in a Pennsylvania town where residents say wells have been polluted by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas.

Only a month after declaring water in Dimock safe to drink, the Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering action after residents supplied the EPA with hundreds of pages of data that link water pollution to fracking.

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