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EPA Further Delays Hydraulic Fracturing Study as Controversy Builds

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EPA’s current estimate of the completion time for a draft of its study of the risks posed by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) to drinking water is now projected by the agency to be developed in early 2015. This is based on...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Department of Energy Report Indicates Fracking Has Not Contaminated Drinking Water in Western Pennsylvania

A recent study by the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) indicates that chemical-laced fluids used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have not contaminated the drinking water at a test...more

Allen Matkins

California Environmental Law and Policy Update - July 25, 2013

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Environmental and Policy Focus: Interior Chief defends federal hydraulic fracturing regulations -- Bloomberg - Jul 18: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell drew on her experience as a former oil-industry engineer to defend...more

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Federal Government Study Confirms Hydraulic Fracturing Does Not Contaminate Drinking Water

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The Department of Energy (“DOE”), after a year-long study at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, has concluded that there is no evidence that chemicals used during the hydraulic fracturing process have contaminated drinking...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

DOE Hydraulic Fracturing Study Finds No Evidence of Water Contamination

Preliminary results of a comprehensive Department of Energy (DOE) study of hydraulic fracturing found no evidence that chemicals from natural gas drilling operations contaminated drinking water....more

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