The Environmental Protection Agency has not divulged what it is considering on a couple of fronts—pesticide control and hazardous waste management—in the regulation of hydraulic fracturing and related oil and natural gas work, according to interested parties.
State officials have asked EPA about whether the biocides in hydraulic fracturing fluids should be covered by the reporting and registration requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. EPA officials have not responded.
“I don’t have a sense of how they want to approach this,” Jeff Comstock, present-elect of the Association of American Pesticide Control Officials, told BNA Nov. 13.
He ...
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