Congressional Democrats are demanding answers from the Environmental Protection Agency about the safety of hydraulic fracturing, a form of natural gas drilling also known as fracking, after revelations that wastewater from such drilling, which contains radioactive material, is regularly dumped into rivers and streams without proper treatment.
[March 22, 2011 update]
The Texas Railroad Commission has voted that the “Environmental Protection Agency was wrong when it concluded a gas driller had contaminated domestic water wells in North Texas.”
The EPA believes Range contributed to the contamination of the wells with benzene, methane and other toxic gases.
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