The Florida House last week passed a bill that would stop local governments from banning hydraulic fracturing inside their political boundaries. The bill passed by a vote of 82-34 and calls for a study of fracking and regulation of the drilling practice. Democrats opposed the bill, saying fracking should be banned in Florida because of the potential to contaminate groundwater reserves. Republican lawmakers argued that there's no law now to regulate fracking and the bill would establish some oversight over the use of the drilling completion technique.
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