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Joining us, the propublica reporter who broke the story. nice to have you back on the show. >> hi, rachel. >> the epa is not saying this water pollution is definitely coming from the fracking in wyoming. is there a reasonable alternate explanation as far as you can tell. >> there are a couple of alternative explanations. they all have to do with drilling if not the fracking process specifically. there are a bunch of waste pits that have contaminated the ground to some extent. the question is, have they gone into people's drinking water wells and what they announced this week, a thousand feet d...

Rule out agricultural causes which would be the other industrial activity in the area. no nitrates, no fertilizers, nothing like that. >> if in the big picture the federal government is not supposed to regulate fracking activity in terms of its effect on drinking water, why is the epa doing the testing? >> the epa responded to a growing clamor of complaints from pavilion going back a decade. the epa has responsibility for regulating water and the environment and they took this on as a straightforward scientific investigation. it's not as they tell it an investigation to drilling or hydraulic f...