Texas forces firms to open up on ‘fracking’

Independent: As the spiritual home of big oil, Texas may fairly be seen to be to environmentalism what its official food, chilli con carne, is to vegetarianism. But that hasn't stopped the state becoming the first corner of America to require energy firms to disclose information about the chemicals they are pumping into the ground in order to release natural gas during the hugely controversial process of "hydraulic fracking". The Lone Star state's Governor, Rick Perry, quietly signed a law last week which......

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