Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for having this hearing, and I also want to thank the Ranking Member for bringing Jim Seay to the panel today.
Thank you for your testimony today.
It is a terrific idea and innovation because what it is doing is it is really helping make that connection.
I am from Maryland, as you know, and very focused on the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the Bay watershed.
Our objective here is to have a rule where there is disclosure that brings about the confidence of the American public.
If the ball is hidden and nobody knows, then that is not going to fulfill the objective.
We need to--a commitment from the Department of the Interior that there is going to be program integrity, that there wil...
I applaud you and the President for focusing in on these issues of safety.
I think the multiplier effect it has in terms of economic opportunities and, frankly, jobs that can be created is signif...
I do want to point out that the industry keeps asserting that there is all this evidence that hydraulic fracturing can't...
The industry keeps asserting that there is all this evidence that hydraulic fracturing can't contaminate underground sou...