Democrat Seeks Energy Agency Data on Gas Reserve Estimates
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A Democratic lawmaker asked the U.S. Energy Information Administration to re-evaluate natural-gas resources after a published report questioned whether drillers can extract the fuel economically.
Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement today that he wants EIA, which tracks and analyzes energy data, to justify “optimistic estimates” of the potential for gas production from advances in drilling in shale-rock formations known as hydraulic fracturing.