Rogue Federal EPA Tries New Power Play to Regulate Fracking

| |
On Friday the rogue and out-of-control federal Environmental Protection Agency continued its rogue and out-of-control ways. Even though the drilling industry has formed FracFocus.org to register the chemicals used at every single well drilled, and even though many states require their drillers to file reports with FracFocus, and even though anyone, including you and me as well as the EPA can run a quick search on any well to find out what chemicals have been used--the EPA is considering their own rule on reporting. On Friday the EPA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR, full copy embedded below) that threatens to bring down the jackboots of the EPA on the necks of drillers everywhere--requiring them to do what they already do. In their ANPR the EPA says maybe new regulations will be federal regs (in violation of the U.S. Constitution which stipulates the states regulate oil and gas drilling), or maybe it will be voluntary, maybe it will be just a report filed with the feds, maybe a report filed with a third party (like FracFocus). Lots of maybes in the generic, mealy-mouthed ANPR. Make no mistake. This is the beginning of a huge power grab--something the EPA has lusted for. The clock is ticking on the failed Obama administration and they want to grab any power--by law or fiat--that they can. The EPA has NO business regulating oil and gas drilling in the United States--unless we hand it to them on a silver platter. Once published in the Federal Register there will be a 90-day comment period. Let's flood the power-crazed EPA with comments telling them "no thanks." Below is the EPA press release along with a copy of the draft ANPR...

To view this content, log into your member account. (Not a member? Join Today!)