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\"5742791444_a15366e083_z\"The\u00a0oil and gas industry has been busy the last few years trying to respond to significant environmental concerns raised by an often skeptical public. While there have been noteworthy improvements in how industry conducts business and how regulators oversee this activity, more needs to be done to manage risks.<\/p>\n

In an invited guest editorial in this month\u2019s Journal of Petroleum Technology, EDF Senior Policy Director Scott Anderson offers our assessment of where efforts to protect water need to focus at this juncture. The editorial is re-posted with permission of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Read the full editorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image Source: Flickr user Jeremy Buckingham<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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