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\"I believe that developers may have legitimate concerns about the impact that removing the exemption may have on their ability to find and extract oil and gas,\" he said. \"But ... the current regulatory approach is probably not sustainable and will probably need to be revised in some way,\" Salazar wrote in an emailed response.

Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massive energy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean water laws, Congress is having second thoughts about the environmental dangers posed by the burgeoning industry.