Science advisers prod EPA to reverse fracking findings

Published August 12, 2016 5:53pm ET



Environmental Protection Agency science advisers want the agency to provide quantitative proof that fracking doesn’t pollute the water table after the agency already said there is no evidence it does.

The EPA Scientific Advisory Board, a key federal panel of advisers, said late Thursday that the draft fracking report the agency released a year ago needs to back up its claims with statistical data and quantitative analysis that fracking has had no “widespread” impact on the water table.

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