Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox and his crew on Wednesday walked into a congressional hearing on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a controversial natural gas drilling technique. Fox left in handcuffs, charged with unlawful entry.
The meeting of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment was focused on the Environmental Protection Agency's Dec. 8 draft report on links between fracking and water contamination in Pavillion, Wyo.
Fox, working on the sequel to the HBO documentary "Gasland," planned to attend the hearing because the EPA investigation highlights subjects from both "Gasland" and the sequel. Thus, he told HuffPost, "we were not really going to be told 'no.'"
"Since the change in Congress when Republicans took over, we have been getting a lot of flack trying to get into the public hearings," Fox said.
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