A New Oversight Panel on Fracking

New York Times: In an effort to streamline federal regulation of the domestic natural gas boom, President Obama on Friday announced creation of an inter-agency task force to ensure what he called the "safe and responsible development of domestic natural gas resources." The move comes as the Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to issue draft regulations on air pollution from hydraulic fracturing, which extracts natural gas from rock formations by injecting water and chemicals deep underground at high...

URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/a-new-oversight-panel-on-fracking/
Enclosure: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/13/executive-order-supporting-safe-and-responsible-development-unconvention