The Environmental Protection Agency took its first step towards
demanding companies disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic
fracturing in oil and gas production, which could be a launching pad for
regulating the fracking industry as a whole.
The prerule is in response to a citizen petition by Earthjustice,
a legal non-profit focusing on the environment, under the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Earthjustice, along with 114 other
groups, petitioned the EPA in August 2011 to require “toxicity testing of chemicals and mixtures used in oil and
gas exploration and production; reporting to EPA, among other
things, the identity of those chemicals and mixtures; and
submitting to EPA health and safety studies on the chemicals and
mixtures,” the EPA said in its
ANPR.
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