oil and gas vandalism
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A slightly softer crackdown on those who’d monkey-wrench oil & gas
The state Senate OK’d an effort today to step up penalties for vandalism of oil-and-gas hardware like pumps and pipelines, but it first eased up on one provision in the measure. Republican state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg’s Senate Bill 35 would upgrade from a class 2 misdemeanor to a class 6 felony the crime of knowingly destroying, breaking, removing or…