The EPA's CYA move
22.05.12
It all started when Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, said something never before stated
by the EPA.
In comments to a Bloomberg TV news show, she said the oil and
gas industry practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may
have been responsible for the contamination of water at Pavillion,
home to a few hundred people in west-central Wyoming.
The announcement was significant. The agency was in the midst of
working on a draft version of a report that would draw a conclusion
from data gathered at drinking water and two deep monitoring wells
in the Pavillion area. What resulted would be significant,
regardless of what the results were, because the top federal
environmental watchdog was staking its name on the report’s
conclusions.
Jackson, it seemed, had previewed the report on television
before the report had been released.
Her statement, first reported in the Star-Tribune, made its way
to the ears of Jim Inhofe, a U.S. senator from Oklahoma, the top
Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,
and a frequent critic of the agency.
Source: Casper Star-Tribune Online