As Trump vows to boost jobs-boosting oil drilling, fracking foes turn to courts
New York
JANET McIntyre has heard president-elect Donald Trump praise fracking and the jobs it's created. She's living the other side of the story.
For six years, the western Pennsylvania woman and dozens of her neighbours have blamed their tainted groundwater - turned foamy, foul-smelling and undrinkable - on a drilling technique that slams sand, water and chemicals underground at high pressure to unlock oil and natural gas caught in the shale below.
Now Ms McIntyre and others on the front lines of the fracking debate are getting support from an Environmental Protection Agency report, released on Tuesday, that says drilling can harm groundwater. The report, quickly denounced by the industry, come…
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