EPA’s New Methane Mandates on Fracking Are a Solution in Search of a Problem

Remarks as prepared for delivery, public hearing held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New and Modified Sources”

Dallas, Texas

September 23, 2015

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Texans Highlight How Extreme Drilling Setbacks Threaten Private Property Rights

Cities in North Texas may be prohibited from banning fracking, but that hasn’t stopped some of them from trying to impose what are known as extreme setbacks, which dictate how far drilling sites must be from buildings, homes, and other structures. As North Texans for Natural Gas has previously shown, these setbacks can effectively ban drilling.

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Frack Free Denton Claims Broad Support as Texas Officials Reject Their Campaign

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram recently published an op-ed from Earthworks’ Sharon Wilson and Frack Free Denton’s Adam Briggle, two of the anti-energy organizers who led the push for a fracking ban in Denton. The activists are now looking to “build a statewide coalition” to fight fracking across Texas, claiming other cities are rising up to join their cause.
 
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Frack Free Denton Breaks Promise, Leaves Taxpayers on the Hook for Legal Fees

Last year, as the City of Denton considered whether to ban hydraulic fracturing, public officials and many residents expressed concern over the cost of such a policy. If a ban were enacted, the resulting lawsuits would put taxpayers on the hook for court costs and other legal fees. If a ban were enacted, it was “going to be decided in the statehouse or the courthouse,” Mayor Chris Watts said last summer.

 

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FrackFeed Puts New Focus on Anti-Science ‘Ban Fracking’ Campaign

A new website is drawing attention to the fracking issue in a way that has never been done before.

FrackFeed.com was recently launched by North Texans for Natural Gas, a grassroots program of over 110,000 people who support drilling in the Barnett Shale. It’s about educating the public on fracking, as well as exposing how anti-fracking groups have denied science in their campaign to ban American energy development.

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Foes of fracking losing legal and political momentum

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, June 24, 2015


DENVER — After scoring a statewide ban last year on hydraulic fracturing in New York, anti-fracking activists talked excitedly about following up in a major fossil fuel-producing state — Colorado, maybe, or California.

Instead, the next state to prohibit the use of fracking in oil and gas extraction — on a temporary basis — was Maryland, which, like New York, is a deep-blue state with no hydraulic fracturing activity. Critics quickly dismissed the two-year moratorium as purely symbolic.

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EPA Water Study Quiz

Last week, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited draft report on the effects associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on drinking water, completing the most extensive scientific review of published data to date. How much do you know about the study? Play our "EPA Water Study Quiz" to find out!

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11 Things “Ban Fracking” Activists Don’t Want You to Know about the EPA Report on Fracking and Groundwater

The EPA recently published an extensive, years-long study about the impact of fracking on America's water supply. Much to the dismay of fracktivists, the study found that there is no evidence that there is any widespread impact on drinking water.

Here's 11 Things Fracktivists Don’t Want You to Know about the EPA Report on Fracking and Groundwater:

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