EPA Extends Deadline for Public Input on Fracking

Yesterday, Apr. 30, was to be the final day for the general public to "submit data and scientific literature" to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assist the EPA with their multi-year study of fracking. However, the EPA posted a notice in yesterday's Federal Register (see it embedded below) extending the deadline to Nov. 15. A final report from the EPA is due in 2014--no word if this extension will prompt a slippage in that date too. Why the change in deadline?...

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