EPA Accused of `Whitewashing’ Conclusions about Fracking

The Environmental Protection Agency “whitewashed” a June 2015 report on the impacts hydraulic fracturing has on drinking water sources, critics charged and called on the regulators to justify their conclusion of no “widespread, systemic impacts.”

Environmentalists and academics told Bloomberg BNA Dec. 2 they are hoping the EPA, which is expected to release the final version of its fracking study before the end of the year, heeds the guidance of its Science Advisory Board, which in August said the highlighted conclusions made by EPA were not consistent with the data in the report.

Recent media reports have cited documents indicating ...