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Fracking is a non-technical term for Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is a method for retrieving, otherwise inaccessible, natural gas and petroleum by injecting pressurized fluid and chemicals into underground rock causing fissures. The fissures widen and expand allowing petroleum and gas to escape and flow to areas where it can be retrieved. less -

Municipal Legal News

Dickinson Wright on 10/4/2016

On September 21, Governor Snyder signed a package of bills (2016 PA 281-283) that significantly expands the types of medical marijuana facilities permitted under state law, and establishes a licensing scheme similar to the...more

OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Rule: Compliance Clock Ticks While Legal Challenges Mount

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/19/2016

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its final rule on “Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica” (the “Silica Rule”) on March 25, 2016, and as expected numerous manufacturing...more

A Beginner’s Guide to OSHA’s Final Silica Rule

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/9/2016

On March 24, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its final rule on occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. The rule was published in the Federal Register on March 25, 2016....more

OSHA Issues Final Silica Rule: What’s the Same and What’s Changed?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/28/2016

On March 25, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published in the Federal Register its final rule on occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E....more

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OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Rule: Compliance Clock Ticks While Legal Challenges Mount

A Beginner’s Guide to OSHA’s Final Silica Rule

OSHA Issues Final Silica Rule: What’s the Same and What’s Changed?

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