They are saying the assertion that EPA's study shows fracturing hasn't led to "widespread, systemic" problems with drinking water from fracturing needs to be changed, because the terms are ill-defined.
"There's agreement the sentence needs to be modified," said David Dzombak, a Carnegie Mellon University professor chairing the EPA scientific advisory panel conducting a peer review of the agency's hydraulic fracturing study, released in June. "The sentence is ambiguous and requires clarification."
Some members of the panel have said that more weight should be given to the "severity of local impacts" on water supplies.
The panel is months away from finishing its work, which would be a recommendation to EPA, not an order.
But the panel is also recommending that the study include more about three major EPA investigations into water contamination near drilling sites that were scuttled by EPA higher-ups.
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