Environmental & Energy
Jun. 13, 2015
Little fracking risk, despite EPA disclaimers
A long-awaited study by the EPA found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing has had widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water. By Jeffrey D. Dintzer and K. Darcy Elgin
Jeffrey Dintzer
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP
333 S Hope St Ste 1600
Los Angeles , CA 90071
Phone: (213) 576-1063
Email: jeffrey.dintzer@alston.com
Boston University SOL; Boston MA
During over 30 years representing clients in complex environmental, toxic tort, and land use litigation, class actions, and administrative proceedings, he has been involved in precedent-setting cases affecting the way industries such as oil & gas do business in California.
With nearly 30,000 new injection wells being drilled each year, hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is a rapidly expanding method of oil and gas extraction which involves injecting large volumes of fluid or sand at high pressure into an underground well to extract oil and gas from fractures created in the underground rock. Fracking's proliferation has been contentious, and last week...
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