Environmentalists Raise New Concerns Over EPA's Draft Fracking Study

摘要

Environmentalists are raising new concerns based on recent press reports that EPA officials made last-minute changes to the agency's draft assessment of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing to drinking water to downplay risks associated with the findings, leading to the study's finding of no widespread impacts on water. The reports, published in Marketplace Nov. 30 in collaboration with APMReports, charge that the Obama administration made high-level, last-minute edits to the top-line conclusion that fracking does not lead to "widespread, systemic impacts" on drinking water, and to press releases highlighting the draft findings