API Eyes Trump To Resolve Criticisms Of EPA Fracking Water Impact Study

摘要

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is looking to the incoming Trump administration and the GOP Congress to address its concerns about the Obama EPA's issuance of its final study on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water, which drops an earlier draft finding of "no widespread, systemic" impacts to drinking water. "We look forward to working with the new administration in order to instill fact-based science back into the public policy process," API Upstream Director Erik Milito said in a Dec. 13 statement released the same day as the report. Milito blasted the decision to remove its previous draft conclusion that it found no evidence of "widespread, systemic impacts," saying it is "beyond absurd for the administration to reverse course on its way out the door."