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EPA to Probe How Fracking Impacts Water Supplies

HeadlineMar 19, 2010

The EPA meanwhile has announced it will conduct a national study on how the natural gas drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing is affecting the nation’s water supplies. The $1.9 million study will be carried out over two years. The study comes amidst a push by natural gas companies to expand fracking, including a proposal to drill inside the Marcellus Shale watershed, which supplies drinking water to millions of people in New York and other Northeast states.

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