Law360, Philadelphia (April 30, 2013, 4:14 PM EDT) -- After a 16-month investigation, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced Monday that hydraulic fracturing for natural gas by WPX Energy Inc. in the northeast corner of the state was not responsible for methane contamination in three private water wells in the area. The department, which launched the investigation in response to a December 2011 complaint received after water inexplicably began bubbling to the surface of a private well in Susquehanna County, said that methane contamination found in the water did not match the chemical makeup of natural gas samples taken from WPX rigs located nearby. Instead, the department said it...

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