Sentences with phrase «required fracking companies»

In March of 2013, the Commissioners approved a chemical disclosure bill in committee which would have required fracking companies to disclose to the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) the chemical ingredients in fracking fluid, many of which are extremely toxic.

A ProPublica investigation into oil and gas money received by members of the Natural Gas caucus found that they received 19 times more money on average than members of Congress who signed a letter in support of a proposal to require fracking companies to disclose the chemicals they use when drilling on public lands.

Not exact matches

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

The Safe Drinking Water Act requires drilling companies to obtain permits when they intend to use diesel fuel in their fracking operations.

Well, they just passed a law here in Texas stating that shale oil companies will be required by law to disclose the ingredients in their «fracking» fluids.

At an annual meeting, nearly a third of Exxon Mobil shareholders back a proposal requiring greater transparency by the company on the risks of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Yesterday, Colorado and Texas both adopted rules that require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals used in natural gas fracking.

Astoundingly, for a state so environmentally progressive in many ways, oil and gas companies there are not required to disclose the location of fracking wells — currently some 350 wells have been disclosed voluntarily.