New Congressional Report: How Federal Laws Govern Fracking

Three Congressional Research Service (CRS) researchers--two of them attorneys and one an environmental policy specialist--recently issued a new CRS report titled "Hydraulic Fracturing: Selected Legal Issues" (full copy embedded below). The 37-page report takes a close look at federal legislation and its governance of/relationship to regulation of hydraulic fracturing. Specifically, the report looks at the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, along with a number of other federal laws. The report also takes a look at state preemption of local zoning regulations when it comes to oil and gas drilling--a hot legal issue in many states, with pending court cases in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York...

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