How Can We Cope with the Dirty Water from Fracking?

[kristopher]

5. The EPA should be delivering their report on fracking within a month.

Let's hope they bring clarity to the problem so that effective regulations can be justified and implemented. It's tough, you know. We are starting from the regulatory pit that Cheney dug for us, meaning that even getting to level ground were basic common sense precautions and protections are in place is a hard slog. Getting something with real teeth is going to be a lot harder. I'd expect the next stage of regulation to focus on forcing full disclosure of methods and material to the EPA with attempts to extend the process of disclose to include full public disclosure. I wouldn't hold my breath on the last part though.