2023 State Oil & Natural Gas Regulations Designed to Protect Water Resources (Fourth Edition)

This report was developed by the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) as an update to the 2014 and 2017 editions of the publication, “State Oil and Natural Gas Regulations Designed to Protect Water Resources.” The purpose of this and earlier studies, based on a review of 27 state oil and gas agencies, was to describe selected areas and related elements of state oil and gas regulations designed to protect water resources and to generally describe the rule language and agency approaches related to those areas. This update describes the considerable progress that agencies continue to make as they update their oil and gas regulatory programs.

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