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Louisiana’s New Twenty-Day Deadline for Hydraulic Fracturing Reporting Requirements

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Dicharry On July 20, 2013, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources amended its reporting and disclosure requirements for hydraulic fracturing stimulation operations. 1824 (July 20, 2013). Before the amendment, the regulation did not specify a reporting deadline.

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EPA Issues New Air Regulations for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry

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By Stephen Wiegand On April 17, 2012, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for natural gas wells that are hydraulically fractured.

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Environmental Groups File Suit to Compel EPA to Review and Revise Oil and Gas Waste Regulations

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According to the complaint, the harm allegedly includes the “potential carcinogenic effects of hydraulic fracturing flowback water” and the “increasing earthquakes” allegedly linked to injection wells used for oil and gas wastewater disposal. McCarthy , Case No. 1:16-cv-00842-JDB, and was filed in the U.S. See Appalachian Voices v.

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