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GAO Report: Drinking Water Risk Underground Fracking Waste Injection
2014-07-28 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released its report today finding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is "not consistently conducting two key oversight and enforcement activities for class II programs" for underground fluid injection wells associated with oil and gas production. The report shows that the EPA`s program to protect drinking water sources from underground injection of fracking waste needs improvement. According to the report, "The U.S. EPA...
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