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Yale University Study Finds No Evidence of Water Contamination from Fracking

November 18, 2015

In what the Yale University described as the the largest study of its kind, a Yale-led investigation “found no evidence that trace contamination of organic compounds in drinking water wells near the Marcellus Shale in northeastern Pennsylvania came from deep hydraulic fracturing shale horizons, underground storage tanks, well casing failures, or surface waste containment ponds.” Read the full article in YaleNews.

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