House and Senate on different paths to a fracking ban

Florida lawmakers set the terms Wednesday for what may be one of the most contentious debates of the 2019 legislative session: fracking.

The controversial process of injecting high-pressure liquid deep into the ground to extract oil and gas was on the agenda for both House and Senate committees. And the two chambers have different ideas about what it is and how to ban it.

Environmentalists applauded the Senate proposal and scoffed at the House's. The oil and gas industry rejected both ideas offered by lawmakers.

After the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee adopted a committee bill proposed by Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, a group of his colleagues rushed out of the room and across the Capitol campus to see what the House would do.

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