On December 7, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office for the south-central U.S., announced that Range Resources Corporation, a Texas based natural gas company, had been hit with an endangerment finding and remedial order for contaminating the drinking water in Parker County, Texas. The order asserted that the company “caused or contributed to the endangerment identified herein.” However, it quickly became apparent that EPA had no idea how the company could have caused the contamination; then, that the company had not caused it; and then, that the cause was something else entirely. Nonetheless, EPA has continued to proceed against Range Resources, demonstrating the toxicity of the principles and authorities that guide today’s environmental regulation.

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