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Environmental

May 2, 2013

As fracking accelerates, state legislators introduce bills to ban or monitor it

The fight over regulating fracking is heating up in Sacramento as the Legislature has introduced a raft of bills proposing everything from an outright ban on the practice to requiring the oil industry to disclose more information.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The fight over regulating fracking is heating up in Sacramento as the Legislature has introduced a raft of bills proposing everything from an outright ban on the practice to requiring the oil industry to disclose more information to the public. Lawmakers have introduced a dozen bills aimed at fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, and they are setting up a clash with state oil and gas regulators over how far the con...

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