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EPA Administrator Forecasts Potential Shift on Bush-Era Drilling Loophole

Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency Lisa Jackson gives a press conference during a G8 environment meeting in Siracusa, Sicily. (AFP/Str)

Signaling the potential for an important policy reversal, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a congressional hearing on Tuesday that the agency would consider revisiting its controversial position that a popular natural gas drilling technique doesn't harm groundwater.

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An Unearthed Resource: Gas Drilling in Northeast Raises Health and Environmental Concerns Among Residents

Ron Carter, a resident of Dimock Township, Penn., stands at the end of his property line where a truck hauls away water used to collect natural gas in the area. (photo: 
Evan Falk/The Ithacan)

The road leading to Ron Carter’s trailer is made of red clay that melts away a little every time it rains. Truck traffic has created an obstacle course of tall divots that punch at the bottom of cars, rattling spines and scraping mufflers. Some lawns along the way host bathtubs full of garbage or rusty drums belching out dark smoke. Others have drill pads and cranes that stab 200 feet into the air. This is Dimock Township, the speck on Pennsylvania’s map that just became ground zero for America’s energy future.

Weighing in on Offshore Drilling

Protesters outside the Denaina Center, where Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is holding hearings on offshore drilling. (Kyle Hopkins/Anchorage Daily News)

Gov. Sarah Palin told the new secretary of Interior on Tuesday that Alaska needs new offshore oil and gas development or risks an early shutdown of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.

"Once that line shuts down, it will mean the end of oil production on the North Slope," Palin said, adding that plans for a new pipeline to carry natural gas to Lower 48 markets are at stake, too.

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