Tell me again how fracking is safe because it's so tightly regulated!
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“The natural gas industry has exemptions or exclusions from key parts of at least 7 of the 15 major federal environmental laws designed to protect air and water from radioactive and hazardous chemicals.”
(NYT: Lax Rules for the Natural Gas Industry, March 3, 2011)
The following federal laws do not apply to the gas industry:
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- Superfund Act
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act
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