EPA finds link between fracking and groundwater contamination

    Federal regulators have made a direct link between fracking and groundwater contamination. Fracking uses water and chemicals to remove natural gas from rock formations and is in wide use in Pennsylvania’s huge Marcellus Shale deposit. Susan Phillips covers this development and many others in State Impact Pennsylvania.

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