John Fenton, a farmer who lives near Pavillion in central Wyoming, stands in 2009 near a tank used in natural gas extraction, in background. Fenton and some of his neighbors blame hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," for fouling their well water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drew skepticism and mistrust from Wyoming regulators after it privately briefed them more than a month in advance about its first-ever public announcement that hydraulic fracturing, a controversial but favored method for releasing difficult pockets of oil and gas, might have caused groundwater pollution. (AP Photo/Bob Moen, File)
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