The Obama administration on Friday issued a proposed rule governing hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on public lands that will for the first time require disclosure of the chemicals used in the process.
But in a significant concession to the oil industry, companies will have to reveal the composition of fluids only after they have completed drilling — a sharp change from the government’s original proposal, which would have required disclosure of the chemicals 30 days before a well could be started.
TVNL Comment: Is there any other way to describe this than as "fucking stupid?" How dumb are Americans to even think this is anything more that a corporately appointed actor playing the role of president, pretending to be a president while he preforms his job as a corporate establishment expeditor.
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