Aug 01 2013
Salon: House Science Committee wants the EPA to change its fracking study
A bill being taken up by the House Science Committee would force the EPA to include language in its years-long study on fracking that adds “objective estimates of the probability, uncertainty and consequence of each identified impact, taking into account the risk management practices of states and industry.”
The bill, which is scheduled for mark-up on Thursday, was introduced by the Committee’s Chair, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas. As The Hill reported, in a hearing last week Smith accused the EPA of being “complicit” in a push to cut down on hydraulic fracturing, a process that uses chemicals to extract natural gas from rock.
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