State officials squared off with House subcommittee Democrats last Thursday over the role, if any, that the Obama administration should have in regulating hydraulic fracturing (fracking). “The question on the table...is who is in the better place [to oversee fracking]. Are you in the better place here in Washington to tell Oklahoma what to do? Are you in a better place in Washington to tell us in Pennsylvania what to do?” asked Michael Krancer, secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, during a hearing by a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee.
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