What the Frac?

https://ballymenachamber.co.uk/?p=o3skbet8b8 The Utah state legislature is getting odder by the day. Recently, it passed a  bill that prohibited wildlife from being injected with birth control substances–except in special circumstances and then only by authorized personnel. I explained the reason here.

https://www.andrewlhicksjrfoundation.org/uncategorized/s2kvl278 Today,  a senate committee of the state legislature  is taking up consideration of a bill that

https://www.scarpellino.com/8ogn3haysn urges Congress to preserve the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act and to refrain from passing legislation that would remove the hydraulic fracturing exemption.

https://www.wefairplay.org/2025/03/11/64rh9ajhdw

Now why would Utah pols want to do that, just as evidence is emerging that ground water in the West is being contaminated by mysterious drilling fluids used widely by energy companies?