For more than a year, hydraulic fracturing has been one of the country’s biggest hot-button issues—both inside and out of the legal space. The cry from opponents of the practice, which uses pressurized liquid to extract natural gas from source rocks, is that we don’t know enough about its residual impacts and, as a result, regulations hasn’t been able to keep pace with industry. Joining me today from Stoel Rives‘s Sacramento office to explain what California lawmakers are doing to try to slow things down until we know more is attorney Michael Mills, author on the firm’s California Environmental Law Blog.