Proposed standards that the U.S. Department of Interior announced last week for hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands are hugely important, especially in the arid West where water is gold. Unfortunately, water protection gets short shrift in the rules that, once finalized, will apply to 750 million acres of public lands …
[source: http://ecowatch.com/2013/fracking-rules-leave-drought-ridden-states-dry/]
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