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Fleming Responds to Court's Decision on Fracking

Statement

Date: June 22, 2016
Issues: Oil and Gas Government Operations

Congressman John Fleming, M.D. released the following statement after a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) does not have authority to regulate fracking.

"The court issued a rare common-sense decision that adheres to the Constitution. Only Congress has the power to grant authority to regulate fracking, and Congress has done no such thing. Therefore, the court ruled that Obama's BLM does not have the authority, no matter what it says. Louisiana already does a better job regulating fracking than Washington bureaucrats.

"If this same logic is applied to the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the courts will strike the CPP down as well. The CPP will have devastating impacts on Louisiana and our nation's coal industry. Let's hope the courts get it right a second time."
http://fleming.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394898


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