BY ANDREW GROSSMAN
"Most likely safe" is hardly a reassuring phrase—especially when it's applied to drinking water.
Official-looking stickers offering that cold comfort have been appearing above public faucets around New York in an apparent effort to stoke opposition to a controversial form of natural-gas drilling.
The stickers bear a city Department of Environmental Protection logo, the words "Safe to drink" in capital letters and a drawing of someone holding a match to a dripping spigot. They urge drinkers to "expose water to flame" if they're concerned about contamination from hydraulic fracturing.
Hydraulic fracturing ...
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