Fracking

As you may recall, the Obama EPA came up with a draft report that said fracking was safe.  They got so much pushback from the anti-frackers that they rewrote the report to list everything that could go wrong in a fracking operation.  The anti-frackers are using this revised report to try and get fracking banned wherever possible, costing jobs and revenue to the states where they succeed.

Here's an article in response to a proposed ban where the author does a critical review of the EPA report and takes out the politics.

Opponents of fracking claim it will contaminate water supplies, but a six-year, $29 million report studying the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing by the Environmental Protection Agency failed to produce any evidence suggesting fracking has caused widespread or systemic impacts on water supplies.

EPA estimates more than 110,000 wells throughout the nation have used hydraulic fracturing to produce oil or natural gas since 2011. Agency officials stated there have been specific instances where oil and natural gas production have led to contaminated water, but the number of cases in which fracking has negatively impacted water supplies is relatively low compared to the number of wells that have been drilled.