Some in Congress want to end that exemption from the law.
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Codifying an unlocking exemption brings the law in line with common sense and will prevent yet another return to a flawed process that creates a perpetual re-lobbying of many settled issues every three years.
But Fellowship has an exemption from state law that allows dying residents to stay there because "people have wanted to stay, and we have wanted to keep them, " said administrator Ann Scharff, who helped found the community.
Disclosure could allow competing companies to reverse-engineer fracking fluid formulas, they argued, and Wyoming's open-records law contains an exemption that allows trade secrets to be withheld from the public.