EPA Releases Fracking Risk Assessment

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 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. However ...

Questions and Answers about EPA's Hydraulic Fracturing Drinking ...

Q: What are the main findings of the assessment report? A: EPA found scientific evidence that activities in the hydraulic fracturing water cycle ...

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

WASHINGTON — In a reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of a six-year, $29 million study today, ...

EPA Releases Final Report on Impacts from Hydraulic Fracturing ...

As part of the report, EPA identified conditions under which impacts from hydraulic fracturing activities can be more frequent or severe. The ...

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

The first draft of the EPA's report was released in June of 2015. In this version of the report, the EPA wrote that it did not find any evidence ...

EPA Downplayed Risk to Water from Fracking Last Minute - NRDC

A new report by Marketplace and American Public Media investigated a controversial finding in EPA's landmark five-year study on the impacts ...

EPA Releases Draft Assessment on Fracking's Potential Impact on ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a draft assessment on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, ...

Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking ...

EPA found scientific evidence that hydraulic fracturing activities can impact drinking water resources under some circumstances.

EPA's late changes to fracking study downplayed risk of polluted ...

But the final release dated June 4, concluded: "Assessment shows hydraulic fracturing activities have not led to widespread, systemic ...

EPA Fracking Assessment: Combining Quality Research with Poor ...

We know that fracking is a complex process that poses a complex array of potential risks to drinking water. The Assessment informs actions we ...

EPA: Fracking activities can put drinking water at risk due to toxicity

EPA released its final assessment on the effects of fracking on drinking water — an inquiry that began at the request of Congress. Fracking is the process ...

EPA study shows fracking pollutes drinking water

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued new findings proving fracking can lead to water contamination that, in some cases, rendered private ...

What does the EPA study tell us about the impact of fracking on ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited draft assessment on hydraulic fracturing and its ...

EPA Releases Draft Assessment of Potential Hydraulic Fracturing ...

On June 4, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft of its highly anticipated study, Assessment of the ...

The EPA Withdraws Claim that Fracking has no “Widespread ...

“No widespread systemic impacts” · Communications that didn't reflect the science · Correcting the record: Fracking presents risks to drinking ...

Final EPA study concludes that fracking operations can contaminate ...

“EPA's report confirms what experts and the science show: that fracking operations put our drinking water at risk,” said Rachel Richardson, ...

EPA reverses course on fracking safety - The Hill

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reversed course on Tuesday, saying in a long-awaited report that it doesn't have enough ...

EPA finds fracking can impact drinking water, shifts focus ... - CNBC

The EPA noted that “data gaps and uncertainties” limited the agency's ability to fully assess the risks of fracking to groundwater supplies.

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

“The revised assessment puts an end to the false narrative of risk-free fracking that has been widely promoted by industry. It opens the ...