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DeGette to EPA: Companies used 500,000 gallons more diesel fuel in fracking than first reported

By | 10.26.11 | 11:42 am

Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, sent updated numbers to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson on Tuesday showing the use of diesel fuel in hydraulic fracturing fluid is more widespread than first discovered in an earlier investigation.