8/6/10: Courtesy of WKTV. Arcuri was joined by local officials and environmental advocates for a press conference at Otsego Lake to discuss the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act (H.R. 3534), which strengthens regulations and oversight of the oil and natural gas industries in order to prevent a future environmental disaster like the BP Deepwater Horizon's oil spill that devastated the Gulf of Mexico. After calling on House Leadership to include protections to guard against onshore drilling disasters as well, the final bill included language authored by Arcuri that would strip away one of the "sweetheart" exemption from our nation's environmental laws currently enjoyed by the oil and natural gas industries.
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