July 10, 2009

Energy industry misleads Congress

"Energy industry sways Congress with misleading data," by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 8, 2009: "The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing -- that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong -- are challenged by the same data and reports the industry is using to bolster its position. . . ."