Tuesday, November 16, 2010

But these are MY mystery chemicals! You can't have them!

That's what Halliburton spokespeople are saying (in not so many words) to the big, bad EPA that must be intending to expose the company's trade secrets in gathering information for its comprehensive study on hydraulic fracturing — because the agency of environmental protection couldn't possibly be looking to protect the environment, right?

In the same way it is the duty of the FDA to keep record of the chemicals in our food, it is the EPA's duty to log the names of chemicals being released unto the ground in many Americans' backyards. But those Halliburton guys don't see it that way. And who can blame them? They have been exempt from the rules for some time now.

The good news: The findings of the EPA study affect Congress' decision about whether to repeal the Halliburton loophole.

The bad news: Those findings won't be available until late 2012.

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