p.a. christie todd whitman to exempt hydraulic fracking from safe drinking water act regulations my own point of view as a technician i just thought it very i'm arming the e.p.a. technically had described how toxic these materials are toxic at the point of injection and still come out with a summary that says they don't need to be reported or regular. and that led me in the fall of zero four to object on technical grounds then the inspector general of e.p.a. began an investigation of my complaints. and. several months into that. congress took the report from e.p.a. saying that fracking did not present a risk. along with other information and they exempted hydraulic fracking from regulation under the safe drinking water act that lays you and i as the american public in this position we cannot know what the industry injects in our land when it is exempt from being reported. down the colorado river about nine miles to the west of silt is the town of rifle. we. this is only losing one was. this is before. the rifle this is in the three. hundred years. it's been the worst fifteen years. i'm fifty