INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson asked the House subcommittees on energy and power on Tuesday for $14 million in order to fund collaborative studies on hydraulic fracturing with other federal agencies…
“As I’ve mentioned before, natural gas is an important resource which is abundant in the United States, but we must make sure that the ways we extract it do not risk the safety of public water supplies. This budget continues EPA’s ongoing congressionally directed hydraulic fracturing study, which we have taken great steps to ensure is independent, peer reviewed and based on strong and scientifically defensible data,” Jackson told the Republican-led committee.
As part of EPA’s 2010 House Appropriation Conference Committee directive, Jackson said $14 million of the agency’s budget would go toward studies with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Energy to “assess questions regarding hydraulic fracturing.” … (more)
