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NY Times Editorial: Shale and Our Water

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New York State's environmental regulators have proposed rules to govern drilling in the Marcellus Shale� ??a subterranean layer of rock curving northward from West Virginia through Ohio and Pennsylvania to New York's southern tier. But regulators must amend the rules to bar drilling in the New York City watershed: a million acres of forests and farmlands whose streams supply the reservoirs that send drinking water to 8 million.

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