Oil and gas fracking: State and federal regulation does not preempt needed local government regulation: Examining the santa Fe county oil and gas plan and ordinance as a model

Urban Lawyer

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 533-575

  Freilich, Robert H ^a   Popowitz, Neil M ^a  

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