TIL at the behest of Vice President Dick Cheney, Congress approved what came to be known as the Halliburton Loophole, a rider to the National Energy Policy Act which exempted hydraulic fracking from regulations prescribed by the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Air Act. (auburnpub.com)
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