EPA Should Require Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals, Groups Say
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The Environmental Protection Agency should order companies such as Schlumberger Ltd. and Halliburton Co. to disclose the hydraulic fracturing chemicals used in U.S. oil and gas drilling, advocacy groups said.
Earthjustice, an environmental law firm, will ask the EPA to issue such a rule in a petition filed with the agency today on behalf of 114 national and state groups, Megan Klein, a lawyer for the Oakland, California-based firm, said in an interview. The groups want the manufacturers of fluids used in the drilling process, called fracking, to also conduct toxicity tests on the chemicals, Klein said.