Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2013-11-20 — Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act: 2013 — Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act (introduced, referred to committee, did not become law) would have preempted Interior’s federal fracking rules in any state that already regulates fracking and required Interior to follow state fracking rules on federal land even when weaker than federal ones. (novelty: 2)
- 2012-03-28 — Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act: S.2248 (112th Congress), the ‘Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act’ (introduced 2012), would grant states sole authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil, gas, and geothermal wells within their borders — including wells on federal land — preempting federal (EPA/Interior) rulemaking; not enacted. (novelty: 3)