Reuters: The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too burdensome for producers.
The U.S. Interior Department scrapped a proposal from 2012 after drawing heat from green groups and the drilling industry over rules aimed at updating decades-old fracking regulations.
"Our thorough review of all the comments convinced us......
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U.S. Interior issues new draft fracking rules for federal lands
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 16th, 2013
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