Interior Department offers new rules for 'fracking'

Industry officials object to what they see as redundant regulation. Environmentalists say the federal standards do not safeguard drinking water supplies.WASHINGTON — The Interior Department proposed new rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on federal land Thursday, drawing criticism from environmentalists that it had weakened an earlier draft to placate industry.

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