The shale oil and gas revolution, hydraulic fracturing, and water contamination: A regulatory strategy

Minnesota Law Review

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 145-264

  Merrill, Thomas W ^a   Schizer, David M ^a  

^a Columbia Law School ^*  (United States)

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