2016 House Bill 5370

Impose “fracking” pollution presumption

Introduced in the House

Feb. 16, 2016

Introduced by Rep. Julie Plawecki (D-11)

To establish as a rebuttable presumption for legal liability, that any groundwater contamination “in the vicinity” of an oil or gas well using the hydraulic fracturing extraction process was caused by the chemicals used in that process.

Referred to the Committee on Energy Policy