EPA tells Ohio to stop keeping fracking secrets from first responders

Grist: Ohio firefighters, cops, and local officials might soon learn a little bit more about the poisons that frackers are storing and injecting into the ground beneath their feet. The U.S. EPA told the state that a 12-year-old Ohio law that lets the fracking industry conceal information from emergency-management officials and first responders violates federal law. From The Columbus Dispatch: The state law, passed in 2001, requires that drilling companies share information about hazardous chemicals......

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