BMI View: The high profle of environmental concerns about fraccing means that more stringent federal regulations on the drilling method are inevitable. The EPA's newly proposed air pollution standards are an early step in that direction, with further regulations likely to come from the agency's ongoing fraccing investigation. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed on July 28 the frst-ever federal air pollution regulations for oil and gas wells that use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing) to tap resources in shale and other tight rock formations.
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