Colorado GOP to EPA: Keep your noses out of our fracking fluid

Submitted by neilzusman on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 15:56

Publication Type:

Web Article

Authors:

Williams,David O.

Source:

The Colorado Independent, Colorado Independent (2010)

URL:

http://coloradoindependent.com/58219/colorado-gop-to-epa-keep-your-noses-out-of-our-fracking-fluid

Keywords:

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Eighteen Republican members of the Colorado State Legislature Monday sent a letter (pdf) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding the federal agency refrain from regulating the natural gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” no matter what a two-year EPA study of the process reveals.

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Halliburton frac fluid on a tractor trailer near Buffalo, Pa.   Source: Marcellus-Shale.us

See: Christoper Hayes. The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC: Fossil Fuel Follies,  at 2:22.