Law360, New York (December 23, 2011, 12:51 PM ET) -- In the past several years, hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” has become a hot-button environmental topic. The recent controversy is somewhat ironic given that hydraulic fracturing has been in commercial practice as a means of oil and gas extraction since the 1940s.
New horizontal drilling techniques and the discovery of vast new domestic supplies, however, have made formerly cost-prohibitive reserves economically feasible to extract. These developments have contributed to an exponential increase in drilling activity around the United States.
This brief article presents an...
The Regulatory Debate Over Hydraulic Fracturing
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