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EPA abandons investigation into fracking pollution
2013-06-21 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The EPA is dropping its only investigation that has found evidence of water contamination from fracking. Following a three-year study of groundwater pollution around Pavilion, Wyo., the EPA concluded in a draft report in 2011 that fracking chemicals were a likely cause. The finding was obviously controversial -- frackers would like us to believe that injecting poisonous chemicals into the ground couldnt possibly poison water. Critics of the research found fault with the EPAs methodology and...
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EPA Seeks Small Businesses for Landfill Panel
2013-06-21 17:47:00| Waste Age
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is forming a small business panel to help review the agencys New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for municipal solid waste landfills. read more
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Owner of Midlothian cement plant settles with EPA
2013-06-20 19:14:50| Waste Management - Topix.net
Ash Grove Cement Corp. will shut down two polluting cement kilns in Midlothian next year when it finishes building a new-technology kiln at the site, part of a national settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency.
EPA ends probe of Wyoming water pollution linked to fracking
2013-06-20 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Obama administration on Thursday dropped plans to further investigate preliminary federal findings that linked contamination of a Wyoming aquifer to natural gas drilling, following industry backlash that called the study into question. The draft report released by the Environmental Protection Agency in late 2011 sent shockwaves through the oil and gas sector, by finding that hydraulic fracturing fluids used in shale gas drilling had likely contaminated groundwater in Pavillion, Wyoming. Those...
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EPA Won't Confirm Frack-Pollution Tie
2013-06-20 16:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: People who have been living with tainted well water in central Wyoming voiced concern Friday that they were excluded from a deal that has the state taking over further study of groundwater pollution from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Northern Arapaho Tribe raised concerns after the agreement was announced Thursday between the EPA, Wyoming and Encana Corp., owner of the Pavillion gas field. The Arapaho and the Eastern Shoshone Tribe both live on the Wind River Reservation, which surrounds...
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