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In the Department of "Acting Like Drinking Water Matters" - Making Progress on Fracking
Drinking Water Matters By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a “Progress Report” today on its study of potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. EPA has undertaken a significant scientific research effort to better understand one piece of the hydraulic fracturing puzzle. It couldn't be more important. Fracking operations in Pennsylvania Hydraulic fracturing can affect drinking water in a number of ways. The Study’s various projects (there are 18) take a "life-cycle" approach to potential risks. EPA has
New Rule = Healthier Drinking Water
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Yesterday's announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it has finalized revision of the "Total Coliform Rule" is probably not going to grab a lot of headlines. But, it is significant in a number of ways. First, this revised rule takes an innovative approach to an old problem - how to keep pathogens (bacteria, for example) out of the drinking water delivered by Public Water Systems regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). What's more, the details of this innovative approach were worked out by a diverse group of
California: The Next Frack Frontier?
By Andrew Grinberg, California Program Associate As the fracking fight comes to California, our state government is finally getting on the bandwagon and will begin to regulate the dangerous oil and gas extraction process. The Department of Conservation (DOC) issued the first draft of proposed regulations on hydraulic fracturing. California has become the next battleground for the frack fight. The Golden State is already the fourth largest producer of oil in the US and industry had told us that they have been fracking here for years. There is something brand new though: high volume fracking
Don't Bargain Water for Power
Fracking operations near a home in Armstrong County, PA By Guest Writer, Marion Stoddart In a December 2 commentary in the Boston Globe, columnist Tom Keane wrote that "The key to American energy independence is ‘drill, baby, drill’ -- or perhaps more correctly, 'frack, baby, frack.'" Fracking, formally known as hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which millions of gallons of water, spiked with known and proprietary additives, are forced into shale stone at very high pressures, typically 10,000 pounds per square inch, to fracture the stone and release oil and natural gas. Keane may not
Don't Frack Denver's Water
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director What has separated the fracking wars in the Eastern U.S. from the Western U.S. is that New York City'sand Pittsburgh's watershed -- the place where these cities get their drinking water -- is proposed to be fracked. As you can expect, when millions of people learn that potentially cancer-causing chemicals are going to be injected into the ground near their drinking water, they get very riled up. Conversely in Colorado, fracking has mostly occurred on the plains and near the suburbs, whereas Denver's watershed is upstream in the mountains. Until now