High-Level Controversy over Fracking
January 14, 2016
1/14/16 – The scientific advisory panel for the Environmental Protection Agency is questioning the draft of a major agency study concluding that hydraulic fracking used in the oil and gas industry is not systemically harming the nation’s drinking water supplies, citing “data limitations” and the “adequacy of support for several major findings,” among other problems. On a related track, a team of analysts has argued in Issues that the public and elected officials have also lacked access to reliable and detailed information on fracking risks, hindering sound decisions about safe use of the technology.