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Do You Live in One of the 32 States that Has Been Fracked?
Posted by EcoWatch: Matthew McFeeley, Natural Resources Defense Council on January 18th, 2013
EcoWatch: Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a “progress report” on its ongoing study of hydraulic fracturing and the impacts of fracking on drinking water. The progress report contains a lot of interesting information, but one particular map caught my eye. The map shows that fracking has occurred in more states than previously known, including places like Arizona, Nevada and Maryland. All in all, we now know that fracking has occurred in at least 32 states since 2005.
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Use of Secret Chemicals Runs Rampant in Fracking Industry, New Analysis Shows
Posted by EcoWatch: Matthew McFeeley, Natural Resources Defense Council on November 20th, 2012
EcoWatch: A recent investigation by EnergyWire found that when companies provide information on the chemicals they use to frack wells, most of the time they keep at least one chemical secret. Sixty-five percent of disclosures made by oil and gas companies leave out information about one or more fracking chemicals that the company claims to be confidential, according to the EnergyWire article.
Many of the chemicals that fracking companies admit to using are toxic, carcinogenic, combustible or all of the...