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9. I think what it shows is there needs to be mandatory reporting from industry

Reply to jwirr (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 7, 2015, 12:13 PM

Jun 2015

...and a firm set of guidelines for those reports with penalties for non-compliance.

Also, there needs to be further study based on those required reports, given the admitted failure of the EPA to provide definitive conclusions based on voluntary and incomplete accounting from industry sources they relied on in the five years they took compiling this report.

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Long awaited EPA study says fracking polluted drinking water [View all] bigtree Jun 2015 OP

That's actually a pretty misleading headline. nt B2G Jun 2015 #1

actually not... Buzz Clik Jun 2015 #2

read the report bigtree Jun 2015 #8

Good post and a worthwhile read for those misled by earlier reports. Buzz Clik Jun 2015 #3

K&R Pooka Fey Jun 2015 #4

Who would've thunk it? RufusTFirefly Jun 2015 #5

And let us go out and watch rocks grow packman Jun 2015 #6

This raises two issues. The first is the subject of the article. But there is another issue hidden jwirr Jun 2015 #7

I think what it shows is there needs to be mandatory reporting from industry bigtree Jun 2015 #9

Thank you. I am so used to so many of our government agencies not working very well that this jwirr Jun 2015 #10

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