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Senate Panel Poised To Consider Fracking Ban
March 3, 2017
Just hours after the annual legislative session starts Tuesday, a Senate committee will take up a bill that would ban fracking in Florida.The Senate Environmental Preservation and Conservation Committee is slated Tuesday afternoon to consider the bill (SB 442), filed by Sen. Dana Young, R-Tampa.
Fracking is a method of drilling for oil and natural gas that has become controversial in recent years as it has become widely used in other parts of the country.
Florida lawmakers heavily debated a measure last year that would have created a regulatory framework for fracking in the state, but the bill did not pass the Senate. Environmentalists opposed the bill, arguing that it could open the door to fracking.
Young held a news conference in January with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to announce an effort to ban fracking. Supporters of fracking say the practice helps meet energy demands and holds down energy costs for consumers.
by The News Service of Florida
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And then they can walk and ride bicycles to work.