Just Filed: News That Surprises No One (Fracking Edition)

Posted by Christopher Cocca ⋅ October 10, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Filed Under fracking, Government Accountability Office, hydraulic fracturing, National Energy Awareness Month, United States Environmental Protection Agency

(Reuters) – U.S. regulators are having a tough time keeping pace with rapidly expanding shale oil and gas development, according to a report from a government watchdog released on Tuesday.

Legal limitations and a lack of key data have hampered the Environmental Protection Agency’s oversight of shale production, said the report from the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ non-partisan investigative arm.

(more here).

More data shows groundwater pollution from fracking (summitcountyvoice.com)
Report leaves debate open on contested Wyoming fracking study (reuters.com)

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Christopher Cocca is a Pennsylvania-based writer and community organizer. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Brevity, elimae, Pindeldyboz, Geez Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Generate, and elsewhere. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 2005 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (fiction) from The New School in 2011. He helps lead the Air Quality Partnership of Lehigh Valley - Berks and is the Associate for Urban Mission at FPC Allentown. Opinions expressed on-line are solely his. Quotation does not equal endorsement, except for when it does.

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