Grand jury report blasts DEP, health department over fracking failures in Pa. (attorneys)

[DanielMorgan]

https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvan...ailures-in-pa/

The eight recommendations by the grand jury:

1. Expand no-drill zones around homes from 500 feet to 2,500 feet;
2. Require companies to publicly disclose all chemicals used in drilling and fracking;
3. Require the regulation of gathered lines, which are smaller pipelines;
4. Measure air pollution as a whole rather than each pollutant individually;
5. Require safer transportation of waste water from well sites, including truck labels;
6. Conduct a comprehensive study of the health effects;
7. Limit the ability of DEP employees to take jobs with the private sector industry;
8. Allow the Attorney General’s Office to prosecute criminal complaints against gas companies without being referring by the DEP or local district attorneys.

[erieguy]

Hopefully they’re prosecuted to the full extent and actions have to be taken.

[ForYourLungsOnly]

All of the recommendations seem like things they should already be doing anyway. I’m sure they will be scoffed at as “restrictive regulations that kill jobs”