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DeGette challenges DU Class of 2009 to change the world
June 6, 2009
By: Chase Squires
Gazing across the University of Denver's Magness Arena at nearly 1,000 graduating seniors June 6, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette offered her congratulations and a hefty challenge: Change the world.
The oil-and-gas industry is gearing up for a battle over the regulation of a high-tech drilling technique that has opened up huge new fields for drilling, but that environmentalists fear could contaminate groundwater.
Legislation could change the drill for Barnett Shale
June 5, 2009
By: Dave Michaels
WASHINGTON – A drilling technique that made the Barnett Shale into the nation's most prolific natural gas field is under attack from environmental groups and could attract new regulations from a Democratic Congress.
Colo., NY reps want regulation of gas 'fracking'
June 5, 2009
By: Judith Kohler
DENVER (AP) — The push to put a widely used oil and gas drilling process under federal oversight could gain ground with a new administration in place and concerns about the development of huge gas fields in the East.
Drilling method's exemption challenged by bill
June 5, 2009
By: Michael Riley
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette plans to introduce a bill next week that will regulate a widespread drilling technology that uses benzene and other toxic chemicals but also has been a main driver of the West's natural-gas boom.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY), Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, joined U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today in expressing sadness over the murder of Dr. George Tiller, Medical Director of Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas.
Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massiveenergy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean waterlaws, Congress is having second thoughts about the environmentaldangers posed by the burgeoning industry.
With growing evidence that the drilling can damage water supplies,Democratic leaders in Congress are circulating legislation that wouldrepeal the extraordinary exemption and for the first time requirecompanies to disclose all chemicals used in the key drilling process,called hydraulic fracturing.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today Chair Emeritus John D. Dingell, Chairs Henry A. Waxman, Frank Pallone, and Bart Stupak, and Reps. Diana DeGette and Betty Sutton released a discussion draft of the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Michael Castle (R-DE), chief architects of bipartisan legislation overturning former President George W. Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, today led a group of 139 bipartisan Members of Congress in submitting comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the draft guidelines for human stem cell research.
U.S. Reps. DeGette and Castle, along with 137 other Members of Congress, wrote: