EPA’s Fracked Up New Study; Hillary Steps Up on Voting Rights: ‘BradCast’ 6/4/2015

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Oh, look! NPR says “EPA Finds No Widespread Drinking Water Pollution From Fracking”! Politico reports “EPA: Fracking’s no big threat to water”! And wingnut Washington Times declares “EPA: Fracking doesn’t harm drinking water”!

But is that what the EPA really said in their new draft assessment of the known effects of oil and gas hydraulic fracturing on drinking water? Earthworks Action’s Lauren Pagel joined me on today’s BradCast to try and help set the record straight. Wish us luck.

Also today: Hillary Clinton joins the Democratic fight for democratic rights. We cover her speech today at Texas Southern University on restoring voting rights suppressed by Republicans and the Supreme Court, and expanding those rights to include 20 days of early voting in every state and automatic universal registration for all citizens 18 years of age and older.

Plus: The indicted former TX Gov. Rick Perry jumps in to the 2016 GOP race; Jeb Bush finally agrees to follow the law (eventually); Georgetown University divests from coal (for what it’s worth) and Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, which happens to be on almost all of the above…

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2 Comments on “EPA’s Fracked Up New Study; Hillary Steps Up on Voting Rights: ‘BradCast’ 6/4/2015

  1. Good eye Brad on the fracking issue:

    In 2010, Congress commissioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the impact of fracking on drinking water. The U.S. EPA released its long-awaited final draft of its report today, assessing how fracking for oil and gas can impact access to safe drinking water. The report refuted the conclusion arrived at by the U.S. EPA’s 2004 study that fracking poses no threat to drinking water, a conclusion used to exempt the fracking process from the Safe Drinking Water Act.

    (Long-Awaited EPA Study Says Fracking Pollutes Drinking Water). It is becoming clear that “knowledge” for far too many Americans is in fact merely belief (The Pillars of Knowledge: Faith and Trust?).

    “The Google” has some revealing headlines when one runs the query “epa on fracking” … two examples:

    Long-Awaited EPA Study Says Fracking Pollutes Drinking Water

    EPA: Fracking doesn’t harm drinking water

    Lots of degrees from the University of The Coin Toss it would seem.

  2. You think no one can top EPA lite?

    Think again.

    The Pogo invasion of CA is complete:

    “Every month, Occidental and Chevron directly pump 2.63 times more toxic waste water into the San Joaquin Aquifer than oil released into the Gulf during the entire BP spill. The California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) plans to allow them to continue for another 21 months. This lawsuit brought to stop the poisoning of the San Joaquin aquifer and to remediate the damage already done to the farmland of Kern County.”

    (What Next, Mass Depraved-Heart Murder?). I am feeling like the democrats have been infiltrated.

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