Moving past preemption: Enhancing the power of local governments over hydraulic fracturing

Minnesota Law Review

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 385-418

  Kitze, Rachel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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