Trump Vows to Boost Drilling and Fracking Foes Turn to Courts

  • In Pennsylvania, dispute simmers over toll on water quality
  • EPA finds signs of pollution in some cases, but extent unclear
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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 neighbors 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.

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Trump Vows to Boost Drilling and Fracking Foes Turn to Courts