Friday, April 20, 2012

Epa fracking rules

  •  The Environmental Protection Agency issued the first-ever national air pollution regulations for fracking on Wednesday.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - U.S. environment regulators are expected to finalize long-delayed rules Wednesday that aim to slash smog-forming emissions from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at oil and natural gas wells.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • EPA regulators announced the first set of rules for the quickly spreading drilling technique called fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, which uses a combination of water, sand, and chemicals to fracture rock layers.
  • (Motley Fool)
  • WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued regulations that for the first time will curtail air pollution from natural gas wells that use a controversial production technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Water headlines via email. The Environmental Protection Agency issued the first-ever national air pollution regulations for fracking on Wednesday.
  • (AlterNet)
  • Range Resources workers at a well site in Washington, Pa.
  • (10Connects.com)
  • In fracking, drillers blast large amounts of sand and water laced with chemicals deep underground to free natural gas and oil. The EPA said the rules will reduce emissions that contribute to smog by 95 percent from fracking wells.
  • (Reuters)
  • The EPA has underestimated the costs of complying with the rules and overestimated the benefits flaring techniques to burn off escaping gas and toxins during the fracking process.
  • (Durango Herald)
  • This week, the EPA released the first regulations There is no evidence that the fracking itself -- as opposed to wastewater disposal -- causes earthquakes, he said.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules for gas drilling will delay a requirement to capture air pollution at the well until 2015, Howard Feldman, research director of the American Petroleum Institute, said.
  • (Moneynews (blog))

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