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Ed Markey: Congress didn't write a get-out-of-any-regulation-forever-free card for fracking. Any attempt to extract any other…

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
Congress didn't write a get-out-of-any-regulation-forever-free card for fracking. Any attempt to extract any other reading out of the Congressional Record clearly fractures credulity.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey emphasizes that Congress did not exempt fracking from regulations.

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