According to the Hazleton Standard Speaker, "The Department of Environmental Protection is recommending a major overhaul of the state Oil and Gas Act with stronger buffer zones to keep natural gas drilling away from water sources, tougher penalties and bond requirements and a 'cradle-to-grave' manifest system to track wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking." This is from a letter to the Governor's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission.
Interesting.
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