Virginia AG Says Localities Can “Regulate” & “Prohibit” Fracking

Apparently Virginia's Attorney General, Mark Herring, believes every county and town in the Old Dominion is populated with oil and gas experts. How else could he issue an advisory opinion that, in his opinion, every municipality in the state has the authority to regulate and/or prohibit fracking within its jurisdiction? Every other oil and gas producing state, save a bad decision made by New York's highest court, says oil and gas regulation is solely under the purview of the state--and for good reason. The state employs oil and gas experts who know what they're doing--what's safe and what isn't. How the process works. What pollutes and what doesn't pollute. But AG Herring has thrown that out the window in Virginia...

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