The Texas House of Representatives recently flexed its muscles and pushed cities and local governments away from regulating hydraulic fracturing. The Texas House approved a bill that gives the state the exclusive power to regulate oil and gas production activities such as fracking.
Sponsored by Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, House Bill 40 has a companion bill in the Texas Senate (S.B. 1165), which is sponsored by Senate chairman Troy Fraser, R-Abilene.
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