court-sponsored secrecy
lborkowski | August 4, 2011By Anthony Robbins
Natural gas producers are battling public concerns over the public-health effects of their extraction techniques. Does injection of water and toxic chemicals deep into the ground to release natural gas contaminate ground water, potentially drinking water? Now it appears that a strategy we have discussed before, settled lawsuits and confidentiality agreements, has prevented almost everyone from learning about the instances where serious contamination has been caused by fracking.
Today's New York Times reports that an EPA report by Carla Greathouse that described…