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California Adopts Its First Anti-Fracking Law

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California Governor Jerry Brown last week signed a law obligating companies to obtain permits and fulfill other requirements before injecting water, sand and chemicals underground to crack rock formations and free up oil, a practice known as fracking. So Reuters reports.

The anti-fracking law, California's first, will go into effect in 2014. It is meant to improve accountability and better protect the environment by requiring fracking companies to monitor the groundwater and air quality at the fracking sites and publicly disclose the chemicals they're using.

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