Two weeks later Devon's Bill Whitsitt sent a celebratory email to Pruitt's staff, saying, «I just let General Pruitt know that BLM is going to propose a different version of its federal lands
hydraulic fracturing rule thanks to input received — thanks for the help on this!»
It's a positive step — for U.S. energy, economic growth, consumer benefits and climate progress — for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to begin rescinding its 2015
hydraulic fracturing rule — one that we argue duplicates existing and effective state regulation and risks delaying energy development, potentially impacting consumers.
Stuart Gruskin, a former deputy commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation who worked on the first draft of the state's
hydraulic fracturing rules, put it this way to me (in an exchange before the latest news broke):
Not exact matches
The Delaware River Basin is postponing its
rules for high - volume
hydraulic fracturing, a move that has Attorney General Eric Schneiderman here in New York applauding.
Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous today didn't completely
rule out a tax on high - income earners, saying that without high - volume
hydraulic fracturing impoverished communities need some source of revenue in the wake of severe flooding.
Avella opposes gas drilling using
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a position that puts him at odds with Republicans who dominate the Senate's
ruling coalition.
Avella says if horizontal
hydraulic fracturing is eventually permitted by the Cuomo administration, then there should be strict worker safety
rules implemented as well.
The changes include full incorporation of the new Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
rules on high - volume
hydraulic fracturing, adopted this year.
Gov. Rick Snyder praised the project in a March 2015 speech about energy policy, saying its findings had already helped shape changes to state
rules regarding
hydraulic fracturing.
The EPA took another step toward tightening oversight of
hydraulic fracturing today, announcing it would initiate a process to set national
rules for treating wastewater discharged from gas drilling operations.
The panel stopped short of calling for a sweeping federal
rule, but recommended that «regulatory entities» immediately write
rules to require full disclosure of
hydraulic fracturing chemicals on public and private lands.
Secretary Sally Jewell told a Senate subcommittee that her department is «very close» to unveiling
rules to regulate
hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and oil on public lands
First, the Associated Press reports that the comment period is being extended by 60 - days for a new
rule that will regulate
hydraulic fracturing on public lands.
Image courtesy: Michigan Department of Environmental QualityThe changes include full incorporation of the new Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
rules on high - volume
hydraulic fracturing, adopted this year.
More recently, he has become a prominent critic of New York State's proposed
rules for gas drilling using
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, methods.
California, the third - largest oil producing state in the nation, on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, sued the Trump administration to reinstate an Obama - era
rule governing
hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking.
The Environmental Protection Agency's anti-coal aero - pollution
rules, intense opposition to the Keystone pipeline, and looming restrictions on
hydraulic fracturing for natural gas are already further impairing electricity and other energy availability and reliability.
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An early look at the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) proposed new
rule governing
hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands shows the challenge of trying to create a new
rule that doesn't just add regulation on top of effective state
rules already in place.
New York's top court
ruled last month that communities could ban
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Last week, the same editors who support EPA's carbon dioxide
rules and routinely call for a carbon tax came out against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision to ban
hydraulic fracturing in the Empire State, dubbing -LSB-...]
U.S. judge grants request to temporarily stop new federal
rules on
hydraulic fracturing on public lands, Reuters