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Watching Government: State regulators' resources

11/21/2011
By Nick Snow
Some federal lawmakers still want the US Environmental Protection Agency to take a bigger role in regulating surface activities connected with onshore oil and gas exploration and development. Officials from two states with significant energy resource potential recently said their agencies have the authority and experience to continue doing the job. Scott Perry, acting deputy secretary in the oil and gas management office in Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, and J. Michael Biddison, deputy director of Ohio's Department of Natural Resources, separately noted that each of their states was prominent in early US oil and gas industry history. Consequently, each had regulate...
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