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Apr. 14, 2011
by Laura E. Lee
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON – Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., on Tuesday called for a change to federal law to allow the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
Cardin, chairman of the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, held a hearing on Capitol Hill to examine the advantages and challenges of fracking.
“We want to be able to tap into the natural gas reserves of this nation,” Cardin said, “and we want to do it in a safe and environmentally sound manner.”
Gas companies could use the hydraulic fracturing process to extract natural gas from the Marcellus shale formation, which runs under Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, and western Maryland.
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