By Theodora Filis The fossil fuel industry uses their power to
control public health and safety agencies as documented health
issues continue to surface. The gas industry has began a
powerful assault against anyone who speaks out on the dangers of
hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the threat to public health
and the environment. Politics is playing a significant role in
the EPA's failure to hold the gas industry accountable for its
damage to water supplies and public health throughout individual
states. For over seven years, environmental and public health
advocates have called for full product disclosure of drilling
and fracking chemicals. No one has any idea what is in those
drums or totes. What we do know is that out of 944 chemicals
injected underground, 30-70 percent of that contaminated water
can come back up to the surface. We don't know how much stays
underground – how much comes back up – or the long term effects
of materials that could appear later in our rivers, streams,
well sites and drinking w