Maryland prepares lawsuit over PA gas drilling effect on water

Reuters: The state of Maryland plans to sue the company that operated a gas well that ruptured in Pennsylvania, spilling fluids into a fresh water tributary that eventually flows into the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland's attorney general said on Wednesday. The well in Bradford County blew out on April 19, spilling "thousands of gallons" of fracking fluids into the Towanda Creek, which pours into the Susquehanna River, Attorney General Douglas Gansler said. The Susquehanna supplies 45 percent of the fresh water......

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