California Needs to Call Time-Out on Fracking

摘要

Oil and gas drilling has expanded at a breakneck pace nationwide in recent years as a controversial extraction technique called hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has allowed companies to reach previously inaccessible deposits. Unfortunately, safeguards have not kept pace. The oil and gas industry is operating with unprecedented exemptions from bedrock federal laws to protect communities, health and the environment - the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and toxic waste laws. And states have failed to fill in those gaps. As a result, every community where fracking is taking place has become a battleground.