Oil Industry Immediately Challenges First Federal Fracking Rules
Chris Pugh, a drill hand for Horizontal Well Drillers, uses a power washer as a shale-gas well is drilled in Mannington, West Virginia, U.S., on Friday, April 30, 2010.
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U.S. drillers already reeling from a six-month drop in oil prices denounced new U.S. fracking regulations as costly and unnecessary, and quickly met them with a lawsuit.
After three years of debate, the U.S. Interior Department said Friday that drillers on federal land must reveal the chemicals they use, meet construction standards for wells and safely dispose of contaminated water.