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Recent News MDE Press Releases Governor O'Malley Names Members of the Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Initiative Advisory Commission (07/19/2011) Governor O’Malley Announces Study of Marcellus Shale Drilling (06/06/2011) Secretary Summers Again Testifies Before Congress About Marcellus Shale “Fracking” (05/11/2011) Acting Secretary Summers Testifies Before Congress About Marcellus Shale “Fracking” (04/12/2011) OAG Press Release Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler Warns Landowners:  Before Signing a Mineral Rights Lease, Check Your Mortgage EPA Press Release  EPA Announces Schedule to Develop Natural Gas Wastewater Standards (10/20/2011)