North America
September 12, 2013
Fossil Fuels | Oil
Policy Brief
California Senate Passes Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations Bill
California Senate and Assembly passed a bill that would impose the state’s first hydraulic fracturing regulations, facilitating oil and gas development in the Monterey Shale play. On September 11, 2013, Senate Bill 4, a bill that would impose the state’s first regulations on hydraulic fracturing and other oil field practices, cleared the state Assembly by a…