Texas Fracking “Disclosure” Law So Industry Friendly Industry Adopting It
One of the reasons Dallas Residents at Risk has made full disclosure of fracking chemicals one of its five basic protections to be included in Big D's new gas drilling is because the Texas law passed last year by the legislature is so inadequate. Besides allowing for "trade secrets" that mean there's no real disclosure, the law doesn't even allow physicians or first-responders to know what's behind those trade secrets before they respond to an emergency situation involving them. Now we know that the law is so industry-friendly that Exxon and its gas drilling subsidiary XTO sponsored it as a nationwide model within the notorious American Legislative Exchange Council which received a lot of publicity over its controversial "Stand Your Ground" legislation