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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 -

The Latest Fracas over Fracking: Legislation Aims to Ban Fracking

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 2/12/2020

Last week, a subset of the Democratic Senators and Representatives who previously led the introduction of the “Green New Deal” proposed legislation that, while a longshot, would alter dramatically the U.S. energy industry....more

2019 Connecticut Environmental Legislative Update No. 2

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 1/22/2019

Welcome to our Environmental Legislative Updates. Throughout Connecticut’s legislative session, these updates highlight developments concerning environmental law and policy. The author prepares updates as Legislative...more

Texas Legislature Takes Further Aim at Local/Municipal Fracking Bans

BakerHostetler on 3/13/2015

On Tuesday, March 11, 2015, the Texas Legislature’s 84th Session gained another bill directed at combating future local and municipal fracking bans. State Rep. Drew Darby (R-San Angelo), Chairman of the Texas House Energy...more

Nova Scotia Bans Hydraulic Fracturing

BakerHostetler on 9/8/2014

On September 3, Nova Scotia’s government announced that it will indefinitely ban high volume hydraulic fracturing onshore. According to Energy Minister Andrew Younger, “Nova Scotians have overwhelmingly expressed concern...more

DOGGR Delays Release of Draft Fracking Rules Pending Possible Instruction from Lawmakers

Stoel Rives LLP on 8/9/2013

At a conference in Los Angeles at the end of July, the chair of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), Felicia Marcus, noted that the Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources...more

New York Hydraulic Fracturing Moratorium Extension Bill Remains Stalled in Senate

BakerHostetler on 6/11/2013

Activity, or inactivity in this case, has continued in recent weeks on the decision over the future of hydraulic fracturing in New York. As the New York Senate’s summer recess approaches, the Senate bill proposed in early...more

A Look At Two Approaches To Oil And Gas Regulation

Gray Reed on 5/14/2013

This is a tale of two regulatory schemes. First, there is the federal way, and I’m not making this up. First, there is the federal way, and I’m not making this up: In my last post we learned that if the BLM,...more

New York State Assembly Votes to Extend Hydraulic Fracturing Moratorium

BakerHostetler on 3/15/2013

The New York State Assembly voted on March 6 to suspend the issuance of drilling permits for high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus and Utica formations until May 15, 2015. The vote came as the state’s de facto...more

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