now since the reports of contamination cabot has been banned from drilling within nine miles of dimmick and even though they took legal responsibility for the methane they like to claim that it was already in the water before they began the drilling so for several months cabot was responsible for providing clean water to the properties with contaminated water but state environmental regulators were allowed to stop that process just over a month ago since that affected residents have been relying on groups to provide them with clean drinking water for drinking washing clothes and bathing but the e.p.a. was going to offer up their help and send clean water up to pennsylvania as well and then in a last minute move they change their mind according to the associated press agency officials wouldn't explain why they decided against a liver in clean water and obviously the residents aren't happy about it several dimmick homeowners are trying to find out who's to blame for this change of heart whether it be the pennsylvania governor or cabot the energy company and when they try to sort it all ou

fracking since then they've also stepped in and also backed out of providing clean water to residents dimmick and sylvania and then just last week they wrote a series of letters to the state department saying that new york needs to go much further in its regulation plans to safeguard drinking water and viral areas and gas industry workers so it looks like some moves are obviously being made to counter the dangers of fracking but are they enough joining me from our studio in new york is joaquin settin reporter sapient reporter for pro publica and bill mckibben writer environmentalist and a resident scholar at middlebury college in vermont he's also the founder of three fifty international climate change campaign donovan thank you both for joining us tonight and walk able to start with you because you just wrote this piece of pro publica detailing what the e.p.a. was writing to the state department about new york city about the changes of the regulations that they want so can you give us some more details there. yes so the department of environmental can conservation in new york has received ab