On 2 November 2019, the UK government announced that it is ending its support for fracking in England. This follows a report from the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority
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EPA Issues Final Hydraulic Fracturing Report, Concluding that The Practice “Can Impact Drinking Water Resources under Some Circumstances”; Follow-on Federal Regulation Highly Unlikely
By Bernadette M. Rappold on
When Congress first tasked the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 with studying the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, pundits on both sides of the debate collectively held…
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Independent Scientific Panel Faults the EPA’s Landmark Hydraulic Fracturing Study
By Bernadette M. Rappold on
In a detailed, 180-page report released Aug. 11, the EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) faulted the clarity and conclusions of the agency’s landmark study on the environmental impacts of hydraulic…
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New York State Formally Adopts Ban on Fracking: An Analysis of the New York State DEC’s SEQRA Findings Supporting Its HVHF Ban
By Steven C. Russo on
Posted in Hydrofracking, New York
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) undertook its final official step in imposing a total ban on gas drilling using the method of high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF)…
Industry and States Legally Challenge Federal Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations
By Laura E. Jones & Robert S. Thompson IV on
States and industry organizations are seeking to invalidate a recent hydraulic fracturing rule promulgated by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (the Rule).1 The Rule will go into effect on…
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Oklahoma Joins Texas in Preventing Local Fracking Bans
By Tricia Rosendahl on
Posted in Hydrofracking, State & Local
On May 29, 2015, Gov. May Fallin of Oklahoma signed a bill that specifically prohibits cities or towns from banning oil and gas operations such as drilling, fracking, water disposal,…
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Urban Drilling in Texas: New Law and New Rules
By Tricia Rosendahl on
On May 19, 2015, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a compromise bill addressing how state and local governments will share regulatory powers over urban drilling in Texas. The new…
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DEC Issues Its Long-awaited Final Supplemental Generic EIS on High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing
By Steven C. Russo on
Posted in Hydrofracking, New York
DEC issued its Final SGEIS today which is available for review on its website. There was no mystery as to the outcome because the decision that the State would not…
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The Proposed Pennsylvania Budget, New Oil and Gas Regs, and the Fear of Fracking
By David Mandelbaum on
In early March, Pennsylvania Governor Wolf submitted his proposed budget. The Department of Environmental Protection issued a new iteration of proposed revisions to the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Regulations…
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Anti-Fracking Resolution by Miami-Dade County
By Kerri Barsh on
Posted in Florida, Hydrofracking
In the last six weeks we’ve provided analysis of the fracking bans in New York and Denton, Texas. Further on the anti- fracking front, the Miami-Dade County Commission passed…
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