EPA Vows Better Enforcement on Clean Water Act

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Oct

20

The Environmental Protection Agency said that it would overhaul enforcement of the Clean Water Act, as lawmakers sharply criticized the agency’s decade-long lapses in punishing polluters, read more at the NY Times website.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/business/energy-environment/16water.html

Sullivan County would do well to look at Pennsylvania experience with fracking

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Oct

18

Steel yourself, Sullivan County. When the natural gas rush hits the Catskills — and it will — your life and land will profoundly change. This is the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from the drilling boom in neighboring Susquehanna County, Pa., an area that sits on the same gas-rich Marcellus shale formation as Sullivan. Times Herald-Record

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091018/NEWS/910180327

New Trend: Flammable Tap Water

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Oct

15

The whole natural gas question in this country is a complicated one. On one hand, we have oodles of the stuff, it’s relatively low carbon, and it would seem to be a sensible pillar of our country’s energy future. On the other hand, extracting it from Mother Earth does nasty stuff to the water supply. How nasty? Check out this video shot in Fort Lupton, Colorado, a little town just north of Denver’s northernmost suburban sprawl.

 http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/10/14/new-trend-flammable-tap-water/