Oklahoma senators want federal fracking study to meet strict scientific standards

 
BY CHRIS CASTEEL ccasteel@opubco.com
Published: January 20, 2012

WASHINGTON — Oklahoma 's senators joined eight other Republicans on Friday in urging the Environmental Protection Agency to require the strictest scientific standards in judging a high-stakes study over whether hydraulic fracturing contaminated ground water in Wyoming .

Sens. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa , and Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee , joined a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson saying that the outcome ...


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