Require disclosure of fracking chemicals and allow EPA regulation

DeGette is a lead sponsor of the FRAC Act, which would require fracking companies to publicly disclose the chemicals they inject underground. It would also give the EPA authority to regulate fracking, ending the exemption for those chemicals from the Safe Drinking Water Act’s requirements.

Context: The source describes the FRAC Act as proposed legislation and does not detail how EPA regulation would work.

In their own words

would require fracking companies to publicly disclose the chemicals they are pumping into the ground.

The source

Diana DeGette: Combatting the Climate Crisis

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