Interior Secretary: Fracking Regulations Will Be Based on Best Science

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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

By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's second attempt at writing regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands is not intended to appease either environmentalists or oil and gas drillers, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said on Tuesday.

Jewell told lawmakers at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing that the department was "very close" to unveiling the rules and reiterated a recent comment that the rules would be out in "weeks, not months."

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fracking-regulations-will-be-based-on-best-science

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Here's hoping

these regulations are not based on the 'best science' that industry can buy.

[Buzz Clik]

2. I've had a peek at some of them. There is, indeed, hope.

The key will be, as always, the loopholes.

[PDJane]

3. Best practice would actually leave the stuff where it is,

And stop polluting the groundwater.

[newfie11]

4. +1. nt

[TxDemChem]

5. Tx government and science is an oxymoron