"This week, the public comment period closed on the Obama Administration’s draft rules to establish consistent standards and environmental protections for the use of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking,’ techniques to extract gas and oil from federal and Indian lands — a total of 600 million acres. Among the 1.3 million comments submitted to the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was a letter sent by the new ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and five colleagues. The House Democrats are calling on the Administration to strengthen a rule that the oil and gas industry has fought to weaken, and to make three commonsense fixes to protect the public’s health, stating, “We stress that DOI do its part in making hydraulic fracturing an informed and transparent public process… ensuring that public health comes before industry profit.”
Posted on: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:12:54 +0000
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