Rules

North Dakota has joined Wyoming in an effort to roll back the newly finalized hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rules for federal and Native American lands.

House lawmakers said they are frustrated by how long it is taking the Obama administration to create rules governing pipeline and rail car safety, and they questioned why it is taking so long to formally nominate people to top regulatory posts.

California’s new rules covering well stimulation, including hydraulic fracturing (fracking), completed the state’s regulatory process last Tuesday and will become effective July 1.

New rules for the handling of waste that could impact oil and natural gas well sites are being examined by the North Dakota Department of Health (DOH) and should be effective in the latter half of 2015.

Moving in the same direction as federal regulators about Bakken Shale crude oil transport, the North Dakota Industrial Commission (IC) on Tuesday adopted regulations requiring all of the state’s oil supplies to be conditioned.

In an action watched closely by oil and natural gas interests, the Wyoming Air Quality Advisory Board in the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on Wednesday approved measures intended to reduce smog and improve air quality in the state’s Upper Green River Basin ozone nonattainment area.

Proposed federal greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rules are either an economic burden or an environmental necessity, according to millions of comments submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Two days after voters in Illinois elected a new governor, a panel of state lawmakers has unanimously approved a series of regulations governing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the state.

A legislative panel in Illinois has delayed a vote on revised rules governing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) until its next meeting in November, following state and national elections.