Fracking Emissions Get Review After EPA Watchdog Report

Bloomberg: Federal environmental regulators said they will more closely study air emissions from hydraulic fracturing after the agency's auditor concluded current information is insufficient to make policy decisions. The Environmental Protection Agency has already begun an inter-agency study of methane, air toxic and other pollutants released when oil and gas are tapped using the process, called fracking, Gina McCarthy, the head of the agency's air office, said in a letter to the Inspector General's office,...

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