Four Senators Urge EPA to Use Caution In Regulation of Some Hydraulic Fracturing

摘要

Four senators expressed their concerns Dec. 21 to the Environmental Protection Agency about plans for regulating hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act when diesel fuel is used in the fracturing fluid. "From a practical standpoint, a key issue is whether EPA's actions will cause unnecessary confusion and open the door for states to lose their primacy for UIC permitting programs," the senators said in a letter to Administrator Lisa Jackson, which referred to state management of underground injection control programs under SDWA.