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Fracking Emissions Get Review After EPA Watchdog Report
2013-02-21 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Federal environmental regulators said they will more closely study air emissions from hydraulic fracturing after the agencys auditor concluded current information is insufficient to make policy decisions. The Environmental Protection Agency has already begun an inter-agency study of methane, air toxic and other pollutants released when oil and gas are tapped using the process, called fracking, Gina McCarthy, the head of the agencys air office, said in a letter to the Inspector Generals office,...
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