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“In praise of the science” — Too much politics in our federal agencies
From the Editorial on the Opinion Page, Morgantown Dominion Post, June 7, 2015
Another EPA study, another EPA overreaching finding. No, on Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a study that acknowledged what everyone knew. ...
One U.S. senator, who once compared the EPA to the Gestapo, described the report as “the latest in a series of failed attempts” by the Obama administration to link fracking to polluted drinking water. Never mind, that the EPA was formerly the devil’s spawn of the Obama administration, according to that senator and many in that industry.
Interestingly, that industry and its supporters are not championing another study. Also this week, a new study from University of Pittsburgh’s researchers found women living close to areas of high-density natural gas operations are more likely to have babies with lower birth weights than women living farther from such operations.
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That study did cite instances where drinking water was affected by fracking, yet that number was small. The EPA insists that the question this study answered was not whether fracking was safe or unsafe.
Its purpose was to study “how do we best reduce vulnerabilities so we can best protect our drinking water and water resources.”
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Men and women grounded in science don’t take direction from politicians, or should not. It’s counter-intuitive to act according to politics and agendas, rather than research and data.
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See also: ‘Don’t Be Fooled’: The EPA’s Fracking Study, Explained
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/05/dont-be-fooled-epas-fracking-study-explained
