He added that other companies are working to reduce and clean up wastewater, use more benign fracking methods, and reduce air pollution related to drilling.
It also eliminates EPA foot dragging on air permits necessary for offshore drilling, and removes EPA authority for unnecessary and burdensome greenhouse gas regulation altogether.
Some of the press may be wondering why we are announcing offshore drilling in a hangar at Andrews Air Force Base.
In March 2003 Tinseltown darling Erin Brockovich filed a mass toxic tort claiming that drilling on the field had created air contaminants that caused a cancer cluster among students, teachers and residents.
The same boom has brought drilling rigs, and the fears of air and water pollution that accompany them, into densely-populated urban areas.
There have been documented cases of leaking gas ruining nearby well water, of air pollution and of problems from the waste the drilling generates.
Many environmental groups, of course, see the shale gas boom unleashed by hydrofracking and horizontal drilling technologies as more a curse than a blessing, producing contaminated water supplies and air pollution while scaring local landscapes.
Energy operators also must meet with homeowners and others who live within 1, 000 feet of their proposed projects to listen to their concerns, not use open pits to store drilling waste and ensure their venting system is closed to prevent sending methane into the air.
Rose, a licensed airplane pilot who joined Global Marine straight out of the Air Force in 1963, watched the carnage from a comfortable distance, having jumped over to rival Diamond Offshore Drilling in 1976.
He said that "means worrying about the way in which the drilling takes places, it means worrying about making sure the methane is captured rather than discharged to the air and it means making sure that none of the contaminated water gets into the ground water that sometimes can fill our water supplies".
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