From EnergyBoom.com – June 20, 2011

Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed into law the United States’
first bill which will require natural gas operators to publicly disclose
the chemicals they use in all hydraulic fracturing (fracking) projects
in the state.

The bill,
sponsored by Representative Jim Keffer (Republican-Granbury), seeks to
be a model other states can use to monitor and regulate the country’s
burgeoning natural gas industry. 

The legislation requires full, public disclosure of the chemical
composition of the hydraulic fracturing fluid used at each and every
well in Texas.

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