Tag: Santa Barbara Channel

• Wednesday, January 15th 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  New EPA rule requires chemical disclosure for offshore fracking

  

  By. Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a rule on January 9, 2014 requiring oil and gas companies using hydraulic fracturing off the coast of California to disclose the chemicals they discharge into the ocean. Oil and gas companies have been fracking offshore California for perhaps as long as two decades, but they largely flew under the radar until recently.