GOP says study beats back Obama fear mongering on fracking

Republicans are praising a new report on fracking that “puts to rest” an Obama administration push to link increased drilling to drinking water contamination.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality’s “thorough investigation over the past several years has come to a close and confirms what we’ve known all along: hydraulic fracturing has not impacted drinking water resources,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee. “The report puts to rest the faulty work of the [Environmental Protection Agency] that attempted to link water contamination to hydraulic fracturing in 2011.”