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Environmental Groups Praise EPA’s First-Ever Clean Air Protections for Fracking

Agency takes important first step to protect air quality and public health
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2012.  Today environmental groups praised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) vital updates to nationwide air quality protections to include oil and natural gas production. This is the first federal safeguard aimed at curbing air pollution from hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking.’
Pinedale Anticline Natural Gas Field, upper Green River valley, Wyoming, 2002. (SkyTruth)
“Left to its own devices, the oil and gas industry has turned the clear skies over Wyoming as smoggy…

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