Sentences with phrase «regulate hydraulic fracturing»
The bill seeks to preserves state authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands — a right that has recently come under assault from the federal government.
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Democrats are committed to closing the Halliburton loophole that stripped the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing, and ensuring tough safeguards are in place, including Safe Drinking Water Act provisions, to protect local water supplies.
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.
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
Despite passing some of the strongest laws regulating hydraulic fracturing, the Democratic governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper has taken to directly stumping for the controversial process — while still sitting in office.
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As head of the Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field is a prominent figure in an agency that has promoted hydraulic fracturing as a risk - free and impeccably regulated technology with a proven track record in New York.
With recent increases in natural gas extraction, largely from the combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, many states are confronting the need to regulate extractive industries for the first time, and others are seeing rapid increases in natural gas development.
More from the Times article — injecting diesel as part of «hydraulic fracturing» is supposed to be regulated by U.S. EPA.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in May proposed creating an additional layer of federal bureaucracy to hydraulic fracturing regulation, even though states have regulated the drilling practice successfully for years without a single confirmed instance of groundwater contamination.