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Obama Admin Delays New Rules for Fracking Chemicals

HeadlineJan 21, 2013

The Interior Department has again delayed a regulation that would require the disclosure of chemicals used in the natural gas and oil drilling process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. It is the second time the rule’s implementation has been delayed since it was first proposed in May.

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