The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued a draft rule governing hydraulic fracturing on federal lands. See here. Not all the environmental groups are happy - "'This is a free pass to the oil and gas industry at the expense of public health,' Jessica Ennis, a Washington-based legislative associate for the environmental group Earthjustice, said today in an e-mail." (from BusinessWeek). But then again, they never are.
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