EPA's Report on Fracking and Water Quality

EPA's Study of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas and Its Potential ...

In 2016, EPA released the final report, “Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking ...

EPA's Report on Fracking and Water Quality | Tulane Law

The EPA set out to determine the relationship between hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, and drinking water.

EPA reverses course, highlights fracking contamination of drinking ...

EPA reverses course, highlights fracking contamination of drinking water ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a final report ...

EPA report on fracking raises more questions than answers

Impacts generally occurred near drilling sites “and ranged in severity, from temporary changes in water quality to contamination that made ...

What does EPA say about water contamination?

The results of a five-year study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency demonstrate conclusively that safe fracking – and its associated operational ...

EPA study shows fracking pollutes drinking water

These impacts range in severity and frequency, from temporarily reduced water quality to water contamination. EPA bases the conclusions in this ...

EPA Releases Fracking Risk Assessment | Article | EESI

In its comprehensive study, EPA concludes that fracking has caused water contamination and does pose a risk to drinking water resources.

EPA's Report on Fracking and Water Quality: Too Little Too Late?

Since 2008, there have been numerous reports of drinking water contaminated by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Final EPA Report Shows Fracking Can Impact Drinking Water

The EPA issued a final report on December 13th analyzing the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, and concluded that these activities ...

The EPA Once Said Fracking Did Not Cause Widespread Water ...

In a significant reversal, the Environmental Protection Agency struck from a major 2015 report its conclusion that fracking has not caused ...

EPA Finds No Widespread Drinking Water Pollution From Fracking

The EPA study does identify some potential vulnerabilities to drinking water. They include the amount of water required for fracking in dry ...

EPA STUDY: Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water - NRDC

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fracking operations have contaminated drinking water supplies around the country, according to a long-awaited final ...

EPA's late changes to fracking study downplay risk of drinking water ...

The changes, later criticized by scientists for lacking evidence, played down the risk of pollution that can result from the well-drilling technique known as ...

EPA: Fracking's no big threat to water - POLITICO

The study, more than four years in the making, said the EPA has found no signs of “widespread, systemic” drinking water pollution from hydraulic fracturing.

Clearing Up Claims on EPA Fracking Study - FactCheck.org

A Republican senator said the report “confirms” that fracking is “safe.” In fact, the EPA reported specific cases of water contamination, and an ...

EDF Statement on EPA's Water Study of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil ...

EPA reports that there is insufficient data on the quality of drinking water sources before and after hydraulic fracturing that inhibits the ...

EPA Finds No "Widespread" Fracking Effects on Water

A draft report from the US Environmental Protection Agency finds no evidence that hydraulic fracturing has “led to widespread, systemic impacts” on the nation' ...

Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time

In the report released today, the EPA said that pollution from 33 abandoned oil and gas waste pits – which are the subject of a separate ...

Enhanced EPA Oversight and Action Can Further Protect Water ...

In this report, hydraulic fracturing refers to unconventional oil and gas development where vertical and horizontal drilling are combined to ...

EPA says no evidence that fracking has 'widespread' impact ... - CNBC

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a Thursday report that it found no evidence fracking has a "widespread" impact on drinking ...