Fracking injects nonbiodegradable toxins (PFAs). No wonder frackers worked so hard to protect their supposed "right" to conceal these "trade secrets".

Businesses have many reasons to want to keep secrets about their actions, but what they want is less important than what the public needs. We should never hesitate to force exposure of their secrets when there is a public need to do so, and we should reject their demands to "compensate" them for the public's investigations.