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Fraccing safe with regulation: Pennsylvania report

LEGAL firm DLA Piper recently completed its analysis of 252 reports by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in the US that show a marked improvement in the environmental performance of shale oil and gas wells following the imposition of strict state regulation.

Haydn Black

Fraccing safe with regulation: Pennsylvania report

The data shows that the incidence of water supply contamination from shale gas development fell to 0.17% in 2013, a 92% improvement on preceding years, in response to a tightening of the state's Oil and...

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