Next up could be Michigan where the bill’s co-sponsor says officials have contacted him for advice on creating their own ban.
In the meantime the American Petroleum Institute has warned Vermont that it might challenge the law as unconstitutional, the organization cites the commerce clause and the supremacy clause. Vermont officials do not believe a lawsuit regarding the law will succeed.
Fracking in the meantime has been linked to contaminated drinking water, the loss of wildlife and livestock and in at least one case a fault line crack that may have caused an earthquake.