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Approval of Alabama's Hydraulic Fracturing Possible Under SDWA's Class II Well Regs
Author(s) -
Stiegler Mayo H.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2002.tb09483.x
Subject(s) - hydraulic fracturing , safe drinking water act , eleventh , agency (philosophy) , environmental science , law , engineering , petroleum engineering , political science , water quality , sociology , ecology , physics , acoustics , biology , social science
Alabama's hydraulic fracturing programs to enhance the recovery of methane gas from coal beds could be approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) under a more flexible provision of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), according to the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.