im Willis reports on yet another EPA embarrassment; the Pavillion, Wyoming case, which quickly became a fiasco when the State of Wyoming and others pointed out the obvious errors in the Federal agency’s scientific approach, which appeared more political than scientific.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been desperate to make a connection between fracking and groundwater contamination from chemicals and thought they had a winner in Pavillion, Wyoming (seeEPA Keeps Investigating Fracking/Water Contamination in WY). Don’t tell Josh Fox of Gasland and Gasland 2 infamy (who prominently featured Pavillion in both his movies), but yesterday the EPA announced they’ve thrown in the towel and given up on trying to prove a fracking/water contamination connection in Pavillion. It is a tacit admission they bungled their testing, as maintained all along by the American Petroleum Institute (see API Says EPA Botched Pavillion, WY Fracking Tests).

http://naturalgasnow.org/epa-strikes-out-on-pavillion/