Posted on 03/16/2017 6:06:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama administration rule requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking.
The administration said in court papers Wednesday that it is withdrawing from a lawsuit challenging the Obama-era rule and will begin a new rule-making process later this year.
The Interior Department issued the rule in March 2015, the first major federal regulation of fracking, the controversial drilling technique that has sparked an ongoing boom in natural gas production but raised widespread concerns about possible groundwater contamination and even earthquakes.
The rule has been on hold since last year after a judge in Wyoming ruled that federal regulators lack congressional authority to set rules for fracking. …
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Drill Baby, Drill!
The headline I want to see is the one that says Trump has rescinded 100% of 0bama’s EOs and administrative regulations.
Fracking has been going on since the 1940s. It has evolved and I believe all the chemicals that are used are well known. Obama was just wielding power for dollars.
Components of fracking fluid:
Water
About 3 drops per gallon of Dawn Dishwashing Detergent.
Sand
Now we are good to go. EZ peazy.
Obama was never an environmentalist. He’s black-ok? He took that public stand to keep the leftist coalition together.
But the phosphates in the detergent are dangerous chemicals, requiring:
- a 6,000 page environmental impact statement for each drilling site
- a bonded consulting firm to certify compliance with the Clean Water Act and OSHA regs
- a citizen’s oversight board, composed of local activists
>>who he really is
There is no there there.
Obama is a golem assembled by the corporatists.
You forgot the thousands of protestors creating environmental damage.
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