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Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Committee Meeting Presentation

Apr 7, 2010

Click below for the Wilderness Society Forest Policy Analyst Mary Krueger's presentation before the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Committee Meeting regarding Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water Resources. This meeting occured on April 7, 2010.

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Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Committee Meeting Statement

Apr 6, 2010

Click below for the Wilderness Society Forest Policy Analyst Mary Krueger's statement before the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Committee Meeting regarding Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water Resources. This meeting occured on April 7, 2010.

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Hydraulic Fracturing and the FRAC Act: Frequently Asked Questions

Apr 12, 2010

This coalition fact sheet answers the most commonly asked questions about hydraulic fracturing and the FRAC Act.

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Smart Moves on Drilling in New York

Peter Applebome, New York Times
Jun 17, 2010

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Drillers gassing on about support for state regulations

Susan Greene, Denver Post
Oct 8, 2009

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If you figured the calls to "Drill, baby, drill" faded with Sarah Palin's political prospects, think again.

COGA and the oil and gas companies backing the powerful trade group spent 18 months lobbying against Gov. Bill Ritter's plan to protect Colorado's soil and groundwater from the toxic fluids they inject underground to free up wells, a process known as fracking.

They warned disingenuously that the rules would push the industry out. Companies haven't budged.

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Rulings Strength NEPA Oversight of Gas Drilling Absent SDWA Rule

Kate Winston, Inside EPA
Sep 18, 2009

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Key federal courts are backing activists in suits under the National Environmental; Policy Act (NEPA) to review the impacts of natural gas drilling fluids on underground aquifers, rulings that environmentalists hope will bolster pending bills to restore EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) authority to oversee hydraulic fracturing—a controversial gas drilling procedure that requires injection of chemicals into wells.

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The EPA’s Hydraulic Fracturing Study Must Be Designed to Protect America’s Water Sources and Quality

Anonymous
Apr 7, 2010

Policy Expert at The Wilderness Society Testifies in Front of EPA’s Science Advisory Board

WASHINGTON – Today, Mary Krueger, a policy expert at The Wilderness Society, testified at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) Environmental Engineering Committee on the Hydraulic Fracturing Research Plan Review. The SAB is accepting public comments on the methodology of the EPA’s study on hydraulic fracturing that is scheduled to begin this year.

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Efforts to Reform Natural Gas Development Gain Momentum

Anonymous
Sep 16, 2009

WASHINGTON – As the House Natural Resources Committee holds hearings on reforms to the nation’s oil and gas program, more than 160 community and national organizations across the country signed on to a letter of support for passage of legislation that would protect drinking water from the growing impacts of hydraulic fracturing, a process used in most natural gas drilling projects.

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Two bills to remove gratuitous oil and gas loopholes introduced

Mar 25, 2011

Even as the oil and gas industry is raking in astonishing profits (Exxon’s profit alone totaled $30.5 billion last year), it is benefiting from a number of loopholes in our nation’s landmark environmental laws that put our lands, water, and air at risk.  By our count, the oil and gas industry is exempt from key provisions of at least seven laws designed to protect the public and our special places.

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Cleaning up natural gas: Our recommendations for safer policies

Sep 30, 2010

They say it’s cleaner than coal, but don’t let that fool you. Natural gas has a lot of scrubbing up to do before it can be considered a genuine part of our clean energy future.

That’s why we’re advocating for polices that will help regulate the development of this fuel which has major adverse impacts on water, air, land protection, and human safety.

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