New Legislation Aims To Close ‘Halliburton Loophole’

Reuters / By Sustainable Business – Matter Network

A group of Democratic legislators introduced bills in the Senate and House Tuesday to close the so-called “Halliburton Loophole” in the Safe Drinking Water Act that exempts hydraulic fracturing. The proposed legislation also requires the public disclosure of hydraulic fracturing chemicals. Read More

Wyo. Residents Still Oppose Water Pipeline

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) ―

About 80 area residents attended the second, added Army Corps scoping meeting on the proposed pipeline project Tuesday night in Rock Springs. That was less than the 300 who showed up for the first meeting in April in the county, but their opposition was just as strident. Read more