No, fracking is not safe

A new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency on hydraulic fracturing has industry fingerprints all over it and data “preclude a determination of the frequency of impacts with any certainty.”

Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, which has lobbied against fracking, said, “The E.P.A.’s water quality study confirms what millions of Americans already know — that dirty oil and gas fracking contaminates drinking water.”

Read it here.

Tom Lutey: Oil drilling in Montana taps out.

EPA hires new press secretary Melissa Harrison, former comms director for NRDC Action Fund.

— Coral Davenport (@CoralMDavenport) June 3, 2015

.@EPA had planned 2 big #climate change announcements this week - 1 on truck emissions,1 on airplane emissions.Now it has delayed both.

— Coral Davenport (@CoralMDavenport) June 5, 2015