Wyoming's congressional delegation is asking Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to exempt Wyoming from proposed regulation of hydraulic fracturing on federal land. Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barrasso and Rep. Cynthia Lummis tell Jewell in a letter Monday that Wyoming and other states already regulate fracking. They say federal regulation in these states would be duplicative and impede oil and gas development. An Interior spokeswoman says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will work with states that already have fracking standards to avoid unnecessary duplication or delays. Fracking is the practice of boosting production from oil and gas wells by pumping pressurized water into the wells to fracture open deposits. The proposed new federal rules would require companies to disclose the chemicals they mix in with the water they pump underground.
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