But oil and gas is a huge chunk of the extraction business, and the percentage depletion rules are more favorable for fossil fuels than for other things you might extract.

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Job-creating companies, aware that regulation is inevitable and, if done right, can lend credibility to their natural gas extraction, are working with many officials to craft disclosure and other rules.

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