From Environmental Action,
You won't believe what the EPA is covering up now. The
agency has already covered up reports on fracking in Wyoming, Texas, and
Pennsylvania to protect the polluters, not the planet. A new story in
EnergyWire suggests why: they have been under political pressure to
cover up fracking's danger to our planet, and to our health.*
The EPA needs our help to stand up to that pressure and do its job. That's why
I will be standing with members of all three affected communities next Wednesday at EPA Headquarters and the White House. Click here to add your name, and I will deliver it in person.
Environmental Action members demanded Gina McCarthy be confirmed to head the EPA because we believed she would take strong action to protect our environment, as she has in the past. Sign here to tell McCarthy to stand up to frackers and politicians alike by reinstating the research that proves fracking is bad for our water, land and air.
Shocking reports show that EPA research
proved that fracking was contaminating people's drinking water, even rendering
it flammable. But when the research looked bad for frackers, the EPA didn't pull
the plug on drilling, it pulled the plug on the research**.
Thanks to courageous whistleblowers at EPA, we now know the agency has been sweeping its own research on fracking under the rug and putting the health of families and our environment at risk. We have already gone to the EPA office in Philly to thank the whistleblowers and speak out against censorship. Now we need to get the message to the head of the EPA. McCarthy wasn't head of the EPA when this happened, but McCarthy inherited the scandal and needs to address it.
Thanks to courageous whistleblowers at EPA, we now know the agency has been sweeping its own research on fracking under the rug and putting the health of families and our environment at risk. We have already gone to the EPA office in Philly to thank the whistleblowers and speak out against censorship. Now we need to get the message to the head of the EPA. McCarthy wasn't head of the EPA when this happened, but McCarthy inherited the scandal and needs to address it.
Censorship of fracking studies has already
happened in Parker County, Texas, Pavillion, Wyo., and now, in the town of
Dimock in my home state of Pennsylvania. You might recognize that name, because
it's near where Josh Fox of Gasland I and II lives. Well if
the EPA wanted to cover up research proving that fracking contaminates drinking
water, they picked the wrong town in the wrong state to do it. But we need your help to make sure this
scandal gets attention from the most powerful people at EPA and the White House.
Click here to tell the EPA to reopen their investigations into contamination of water by fracking.
Jesse Bacon,
Environmental Action
Environmental Action
**Fracking EPA Censorship: 3 times is a tradition, Jesse Bacon, Environmental Action Blog, August 7th 2013
Tell the EPA to stop blocking fracking investigations
They are not protecting us. Over the past year, the
Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly shut down its own
fracking-related water contamination investigations after being pressured by the
oil and gas industry. We knew that fracking has contaminated water from Pennsylvania to Wyoming, and thanks to EPA whistleblowers, now we know the EPA knew it too. So now they need to reopen their investigation into this dangerous and dirty drilling practice and stand with the people and the planet hurt by fracking.
Please fill out the form below and edit the message with your own story of what water you hold dear. We'll deliver your messages to the new EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and President Obama to make sure the EPA does its job to protect all of us.
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