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EPA Connects 'Fracking' To Water Contamination

A worker at Encana's Frenchie Draw gas-drilling rig in central Wyoming guides sections of steel pipe into an 11,000-foot well in 2009. The EPA on Thursday has tied contamination in drinking water to chemicals used in the drilling technique, called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." (Reuters /Landov)
A worker at Encana's Frenchie Draw gas-drilling rig in central Wyoming guides sections of steel pipe into an 11,000-foot well in 2009. The EPA on Thursday has tied contamination in drinking water to chemicals used in the drilling technique, called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." (Reuters /Landov)

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