监管机构在四国特拉华河流域永久禁止

负责管理特拉华河及其上周投票的支流的监管机构永久禁止天然气钻井和整个四州流域的压裂，为宾夕法尼亚州，特拉华州，新泽西州和纽约提供超过1300万人的饮用水。

州际公路特拉华河流域委员会（DRBC）引用了科学证据这种压扁污染了饮用水，地表水和地下水。

投票禁止在Marcellus页岩的部分地区禁止燃气钻井，专门在宾夕法尼亚州东北部和纽约州南部，NPR报道。

“压裂对特拉华河流域的水资源构成了重大风险，禁止盆地的高批量水力压裂对保护我们该地区的娱乐和自然资源和生态，”新泽西州长菲尔菲利在一份声明中说。“超过1300万人依靠一个干净的特拉华河流域水域，这些水域不含用于压裂的化学品。我们的行动包括今日概述的进一步规划，以解决压碎的废水，将保护公共卫生，并为后代保护我们的水资源。“

该决定是在该地区排斥的10年争论。The DRBC, which is made up of the governors of Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York, as well as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, first raised concerns about potential water contamination at the start of Pennsylvania’s shale gas boom in 2010. The commission wrote draft regulations limiting fracking in the watershed in 2011, but then-Delaware Governor Jack Markell rejected them, leaving the agency in a years-long stalemate, according to NPR. New York independently banned fracking within its borders in 2014. The commission released even stricter proposed rules in 2017 to ban all fracking in shale formations in the basin. The vote last week makes the ban permanent.

环保主义者赞扬了特拉华河流域委员会的决定。塞拉斯俱乐部叫它一个“历史分水岭时刻，将大大贡献清洁能源未来”。

但禁令已经通过钻探土地所有者和共和党立法者面临联邦诉讼，这些机构挑战该机构的权力来规范压裂。和化石燃料利益有人指出，邻近的萨克纳河流域委员会，其中包括纽约，宾夕法尼亚州和马里兰州的委员会发现没有链接在Marcellus和水质退化中的压裂之间。

“It is quite clear the region and nation rely heavily on Pennsylvania’s resources to keep the lights on, and we must oppose any efforts to restrict the production and transmission of our natural resources,” Gene Barr, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry,告诉联邦新闻。