EPA: Pennsylvania Water Safe

摘要

Recent tests showed no evidence that the water supply of 11 homes in northeastern Pennsylvania had been polluted to unhealthy levels by natural gas drilling, US environmental regulators said on Thursday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in January it would perform tests at about 60 homes in Dimock where residents have complained since 2008 of cloudy, foul-smelling water after Cabot Oil & Gas began hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" (OD Jan.10'12). A dozen of the households have taken Cabot to court over the matter.