EPA finally catches a Fracking polluter in the Act, levies Largest ever Civil Penalties

US EPA Nails Fracker With Record Fine (via Clean Technica)

The woes just keep piling up for Chesapeake Energy. The company is front and center in the nation’s natural gas fracking boom and it just got hit with one of the largest ever civil penalties for violating Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The penalty…