To: Gina McCarthy, EPA Administrator and President Donald Trump
President Obama: Reopen the EPA investigation in my town
President Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy must stand with those whose livelihoods have been destroyed; they must reopen the investigations into Pavillion, Wyoming; Dimock, Pennsylvania; and Parker County, Texas, water contamination.
Why is this important?
My name is John Fenton, and I farm and ranch near Pavillion, Wyoming. Over the years, drilling has damaged and devalued our land and the land of our neighbors. The water has been contaminated and the air fouled.
Our health has also been attacked. My wife is losing her sense of smell and her sense of taste, my youngest son developed seizures, and I suffer chronic headaches and fatigue. The EPA stepped in to investigate, and released a draft report on the contamination. But now, the EPA has dropped its study. Along with my family and my community, I feel abandoned.
I wish that my family was the only one experiencing this kind of heartbreak. But we’re not.
Families in Dimock, Pennsylvania, and Parker County, Texas, have similar stories. Over the past year, the Obama administration has ordered the EPA to shut down one fracking-related water pollution investigation after another.
President Obama, you promised we would only “Extract natural gas safely, without polluting our water supply." But you’re running away from your own investigations that show we’re not.
President Obama and EPA Administrator McCarthy: stand up to the oil and gas lobby and protect communities across the country; uphold your responsibility to us, our health, and our drinking water; and direct the EPA to reopen these important investigations into the dangers of drilling and fracking.
Our health has also been attacked. My wife is losing her sense of smell and her sense of taste, my youngest son developed seizures, and I suffer chronic headaches and fatigue. The EPA stepped in to investigate, and released a draft report on the contamination. But now, the EPA has dropped its study. Along with my family and my community, I feel abandoned.
I wish that my family was the only one experiencing this kind of heartbreak. But we’re not.
Families in Dimock, Pennsylvania, and Parker County, Texas, have similar stories. Over the past year, the Obama administration has ordered the EPA to shut down one fracking-related water pollution investigation after another.
President Obama, you promised we would only “Extract natural gas safely, without polluting our water supply." But you’re running away from your own investigations that show we’re not.
President Obama and EPA Administrator McCarthy: stand up to the oil and gas lobby and protect communities across the country; uphold your responsibility to us, our health, and our drinking water; and direct the EPA to reopen these important investigations into the dangers of drilling and fracking.