"Pressure Limits Efforts to Police Drilling for Gas"

Past efforts to regulate toxic and polluting waste from oil and gas drilling operations were thwarted when back-room industry pressure subverted the law and science that justified it. Today, history may be about to repeat itself.

Ian Urbina reports for the New York Times March 3, 2011.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/us/04gas.html

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