The NYT recently had a series of articles on E&P operations. Notice a trend?
The follow up NYT article - perhaps illustrating the purpose of the earlier ones: Pressure Grows for Answers on Fracking. It observes: "Congressional Democrats are demanding answers from the Environmental Protection Agency about the safety of hydraulic fracturing, a form of natural gas drilling also known as fracking, after revelations that wastewater from such drilling, which contains radioactive material, is regularly dumped into rivers and streams without proper treatment." (Emphasis is ours.)
No agenda here, certainly.