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NYT: Enviros Protest Engineer's Nomination to EPA Fracking Panel

Greenwire/New York Times, Katie Howell
Published October 5, 2010

An environmental group is objecting to a petroleum engineer's nomination to a panel that will review a U.S. EPA study of a controversial oil industry production technique. The Environmental Working Group last week sent a letter (pdf) to EPA protesting the nomination of Michael Economides, a University of Houston petroleum engineering professor, to the seven-member panel that will peer-review EPA's new study on the effects of hydraulic fracturing on water supplies. Click here to read this post.
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