Hagan offers testimony on fracking legislation

June 25, 2013 at 11:48a.m.

A Democratic state lawmaker from northeastern Ohio and frequent critic of Republican-backed oil and gas industry regulations had his day before the House’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee Tuesday, offering testimony on four separate bills aimed at horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

State Rep. Bob Hagan of Youngstown, D-58th, wants to ban injection wells that accept fracking brine, allow communities to set local safety standards and health regulations for drilling operations, increase disclosure of chemicals used in fracturing and block repeat environmental offenders from doing business in the state.

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