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The Environmental Protection Agency Says Fracking Is Safe — But Its Scientific Advisors Disagree

The Environmental Protection Agency Says Fracking Is Safe — But Its Scientific Advisors Disagree

by The Daily Eye Team February 3 2016, 8:35 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secs

Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known as fracking is at odds with the evidence and "inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented."
According to the scientists, in looking at the issue nationally, the EPA failed to give due consideration to several cases in which fracking may have contaminated water supplies locally.

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