And for any of those that are interested, Stuart, and Bob Einhorn from the State Department, will be doing a pen and pad briefing on this later this afternoon at the Treasury Department.

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With that stroke of his pen, Governor Perry made Texas the first state in the country to require by statute the well-by-well public disclosure of all the constituent chemicals, compounds and water volume contained in frac fluids.

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That would allow Mr Cardoso to whip up public indignation against pampered pen-pushers, argues Tasso Jereissati, the governor of Ceara state and a close ally of Mr Cardoso.

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