Dimock, Pennsylvania, Water Safe To Drink -- EPA -- Yes, a Fracking Story

If you missed the story, like I did, it's not your fault: the EPA released the news six (6) minutes after 6:00 p.m. last Friday, after the news cycle for the week was over. Incredible.

Link here.

Something tells me the first-gay president won't mention it when he visits Pennsylvania.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said drinking water is safe to consume in a small Pennsylvania town that has attracted national attention after residents complained about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas.

The EPA has tested water at 61 homes in Dimock, Pennsylvania, where residents have complained since 2009 of cloudy, foul-smelling water after Cabot Oil & Gas Corp drilled for gas nearby.

"This set of sampling did not show levels of contaminants that would give EPA reason to take further action," Roy Seneca, a spokesman for the regional EPA office, said about the final set of data released Friday. The agency released data for only 59 of the homes as they could not contact residents at two of them.