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An energy security side. but what we have to be able to say to people is that in the process of getting this natural gas, we're not going to screw up your ground water or drinking water or your air. there are air impacts potentially as well. states are stepping up and doing a good job. i always say, it doesn't have to be epa that regulates the 10,000 wells it might go in, but there needs to be standards and they need to be transparent. when it comes to the chemicals in the fracking fluid, that's a fair point. people want to know what's being injected into their water. >> epa administrator lisa...

To do that. do you think that there should be additional regulation of that? and does epa have enough room to maneuver in order to protect drinking water supplies in a fracking environment? >> so epa's in the middle of a study. it's going to take us another year and a half to look at the impacts of fracking on ground water. i think it's really important to get scientific information to show the american people what we know. epa has access to more data than is publicly available. and also to have our scientists look and crunch those numbers. in the meantime, we've also said where there are conc...