Friday, June 7, 2013

Californians uneasy about fracking's safety, lack of oversight

More than 70% of voters favor banning or heavily regulating chemical injections into the ground to tap oil and natural gas, a USC Dornsife/L.A. Times poll finds.



As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/wITVDIhJGx4/la-me-poll-fracking-20130607,0,7627510.story

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