2013 House Bill 4901

Impose new regulations on gas and oil “fracking”

Introduced in the House

July 18, 2013

Introduced by Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright (D-92)

To require the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Community Health, and the Department of Natural Resources to jointly undertake a study of the public health, environmental, and natural resource impacts associated with the extraction of oil or gas from shale formations in this state, and detailing potential regulations.

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Technology