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U.S. EPA unlikely to step up fracking enforcement efforts for now -analysts
2014-01-06 07:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Federal regulators are unlikely to step up enforcement of potential water contamination cases linked to natural gas drilling - despite new concerns about water safety - given a lack of political will and limited resources to pursue such cases, analysts said. A report quietly made public on Christmas Eve by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog brought back into the spotlight concerns about the effects on water quality from the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing,...
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