{"id":7455,"date":"2013-02-13T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=7455"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:03","slug":"did-the-epa-bury-contamination-findings-against-range-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2013\/02\/13\/did-the-epa-bury-contamination-findings-against-range-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the EPA Bury Contamination Findings Against Range Resources?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the <a title=\"EPA Drops Lawsuit Against Range Resources for Polluting Water with Fracking\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/04\/03\/epa-drops-lawsuit-against-range-resources-for-polluting-water-with-fracking\/\">EPA backed down from a lawsuit against Range Resources<\/a> early last year, the reasoning wasn&#8217;t entirely clear.\u00a0 New facts coming to light tell a convoluted tale of lobbyists, politicians, and money distorting public health findings.<\/p>\n<p>Range Resources was accused of polluting drinking water wells near Weatherford, Texas, just west of Fort Worth.\u00a0 Once fracking began in the area, the wells smelled of methane and the <a title=\"The Week in Water:  Feb 11-17, 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/02\/18\/the-week-in-water-feb-11-17-2012\/\">water could be lit on fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Range Resources denied any fault for the methane in the water supply.\u00a0 The EPA got involved and filed a lawsuit against Range Resources.\u00a0 Then rather suddenly, the EPA dropped the lawsuit without much explanation.\u00a0 It was recently revealed that a report showing the wells might have been polluted by Range Resources&#8217;s activities was buried shortly before the lawsuit was dropped.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Desmogblog lays it out for us.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuEmbedCode\"><!--rpuEmbedStart--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.rp-api.com\/rjs\/repost-article.js?3\">http:\/\/1.rp-api.com\/rjs\/repost-article.js?3<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepost-d1c9fcc0f267a2b21873cb7671c95964-top rpuJump-3\" style=\"margin: 0;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rpuThumb\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/1zqNb\" rel=\"norewrite\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 10px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.1.rp-api.com\/thumb\/4232359\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"rpuTitle\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/1zqNb\" rel=\"norewrite\"><strong>Ed Rendell Intervened For Oil Company to Stop EPA Contamination Case Against Range Resources<\/strong><\/a> (via <a class=\"rpuHost\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/1zqNb\" rel=\"norewrite\">Desmogblog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rpuSnip\">A breaking investigation\u00a0by EnergyWire\u00a0appears to connect the dots between shadowy lobbying efforts by shale gas fracking company Range Resources, and the Obama EPA&#8217;s decision to shut down its high-profile lawsuit against Range for allegedly contaminating groundwater in Weatherford, TX. 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Why did the EPA suddenly drop the lawsuit against Range Resources last year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[2854,2649,676,777,1355,1444,1772],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}