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Interior Department offers new rules for 'fracking'
2013-05-16 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The Interior Department proposed new rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on federal land Thursday, drawing criticism from environmentalists that it had weakened an earlier draft to placate industry. Industry officials were not mollified, however, reiterating their objections to federal standards. Last year, they criticized the department's earlier draft rules as inflexible and onerous. "We are proposing some common-sense updates that increase safety while also providing flexibility...
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Interior Department Bows to Pressure from Oil and Gas Industry, Weakens Fracking Rules
2013-05-16 21:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Department of the Interiors Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing, on public lands today. The controversial oil and gas development technique--in which drillers blast millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth to force oil and gas from underground deposits--has been linked to air and water pollution and public health problems. Comparing todays rule governing fracking on public lands with the one proposed...
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U.S. Interior issues new draft fracking rules for federal lands
2013-05-16 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too burdensome for producers. The U.S. Interior Department scrapped a proposal from 2012 after drawing heat from green groups and the drilling industry over rules aimed at updating decades-old fracking regulations. "Our thorough review of all the comments convinced us...
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Fracking on Federal Lands Said to Get Scaled-Back Rule Proposal
2013-05-16 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Oil and gas industry representatives offered qualified support for a U.S. proposal to govern hydraulic fracturing on public lands that establishes federal oversight while deferring to state standards in some cases. In the proposal released yesterday, the U.S. Interior Department made a second attempt to establish national regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. While industry officials said they prefer state to federal regulation, they welcomed the changes made by the Bureau of Land...
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New Fracking Rule Issued By Interior On Public Land
2013-05-16 15:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands will be required to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, the Obama administration said Thursday. The new "fracking" rule replaces a draft proposed last year that was withdrawn amid industry complaints that federal regulation could hinder an ongoing boom in natural gas production. The new draft rule relies on an online database used by Colorado and 10 other states to track the chemicals used in fracking...
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