{"id":3150,"date":"2011-12-13T12:44:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2011-12-13T13:03:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T19:03:16","slug":"new-fracking-disclosure-rules-passed-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/13\/new-fracking-disclosure-rules-passed-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in Fracking Fluid? Texas Will Now Have an Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This rig uses hydraulic fracturing to obtain gas from Texas' Barnett Shale formation. Photo courtesy of KUT News.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Railroad Commission of Texas<\/a>, which oversees drilling in the state, passed new rules requiring the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) today. The rules were proposed by the state legislature earlier this year and signed into law by Governor Rick Perry this summer.\u00a0Companies will have to disclose on the website FracFocus<\/a> what chemicals they use for fracking in Texas.<\/p>\n

Any wells that have an initial drilling permit from February 1, 2012 on will have to make the disclosure. The commission notes in a release that “before the rule passed, Texas operators conducting hydraulic fracturing were voluntarily entering chemical data into the public website FracFocus for about half of all wells in Texas undergoing hydraulic fracturing,” the commission said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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