{"id":1664,"date":"2016-03-31T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2016-03-31T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T03:04:09","slug":"unicameral-approves-protections-against-fracking-waste-reforms-at-oil-gas-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/31\/unicameral-approves-protections-against-fracking-waste-reforms-at-oil-gas-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Unicameral Approves Protections Against Fracking Waste, Reforms at Oil &#038; Gas Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BOLD Nebraska<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bold Nebraska applauds the Nebraska Legislature today for approving LB 1082 by a 48-0-1 vote, a bill to reform the Nebraska Oil &amp; Gas Conservation Commission (NOGCC) and put stronger protections for our water and land in place against fracking waste.<\/p>\n<p>Although Bold Nebraska believes the bill could have gone much farther, LB 1082 is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCitizens stood up and demanded more transparency on risky fracking waste being dumped into our land and water,\u201d said Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb. \u201cWastewater injection wells are the result other state\u2019s reckless fracking practices and should be banned. While we did not achieve everything citizens think must happen to protect our land and water, we once again took a major step forward, because every day folks are standing up to Big Oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/legislature-approves-protections-against-fracking-waste-reforms-at-oil-gas-commission\/?akid=190.3243.IVpyHA&amp;rd=1&amp;t=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the impact of LB 1082<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BOLD Nebraska: Bold Nebraska applauds the Nebraska Legislature today for approving LB 1082 by a 48-0-1 vote, a bill to reform the Nebraska Oil &amp; Gas Conservation Commission (NOGCC) and put stronger protections for our water and land in place against fracking waste. Although Bold Nebraska believes the bill could have gone much farther, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/31\/unicameral-approves-protections-against-fracking-waste-reforms-at-oil-gas-commission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unicameral Approves Protections Against Fracking Waste, Reforms at Oil &#038; Gas Commission<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[10,17,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}