For the second time in as many years Walter Hang makes alarming claims his “facts” just don’t support. It’s another case of “massive” mischaracterization of DEC data.

Walter Hang is at it again. We know, from his earlier efforts, the founder of Toxics Targeting, an Ithaca, New York, based environmental auditing firm, knows his way around government reports. We also know, from previous experience, Walter tends to gloss over details, resulting in significant errors in reporting and alarming overstatements. This case, in which he alleges “extraordinary drinking water contamination” is, perhaps, his crowning achievement in that regard, but he’s been at this gig a long time.

However, previous experience didn’t lessen the media coverage of Mr. Hang’s latest claims, which employ the same strategies of obfuscation used in his last public outreach just a few years ago. This time Mr. Hang is overstating water contamination, is claiming DEC never took action on matters it quickly addressed, and is mischaracterizing DEC’s actions in dealing with produced water and their efforts to plug abandoned wells.

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