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Ecological Sustainability
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Ecological Sustainability

by Robert B. Northrop, Anne N. Connor
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
548 pages
19h 23m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Ecological Sustainability
97Multidimensional Challenges to Human Sustainability
Fracking was exempted from the US Safe Drinking Water Act of 2005, some-
thing that should be reversed (Lustgarten 2009).
On December 9, 2011, the US Environmental Protection Agency released a
121-page draft report entitled Investigation of Ground Water Contamination Near
Pavillion, Wyoming. This report was the subject of public and peer review and
was nalized in 2012 (EPA 2012). The EPA draft report said that pollution
from 33 abandoned oil and gas (surface) waste pits is responsible for some
degree of groundwater pollution in 42 shallow wells in the area. The EPA
drilled two, 1000-ft. water-monitoring test wells in the Pavillion gas eld and
found fracking chemicals such as carcinogen
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ISBN: 9781466565128