in support of chairman tom wheeler as planned but as one journalist is finding out there may be a hitch and has a little something to do with how the civil rights groups are funded artie's lindsey france has more. a journalist this week had his article pulled from a news website nothing unique there except the website news one is aimed at an african-american audience the article was titled civil rights groups blocking efforts to keep internet fair and pointed out what journalists leave viewed as minority rights groups selling out to big business over internet speeds at issue here are two paths forward for the internet currently being considered by the federal communications commission are the reclassify it to resemble a public utility with equal access and rates for use or create different lines of speech and prices assigned accordingly something telecom companies really want just before the closing of the public comment period several well known minority rights group sent a letter to the f.c.c. claiming that if the commission chooses to regulate internet service providers like utilitie

i think those statements from tom wheeler are amazing.is incredible to have an sec chairman come out so strongly -- now, mind you, it's just a day after sprint has left this deal, but to come out so strongly saying it is good to have separate carriers. i think it shows just how strong new regulatory ire might have been, had sprint pursue this. >> i just spoke with john legere earlier this week, the colorful ceo of t-mobile. i asked him if the sprint deal did not happen, what are other options, what about dish? this is what he had to say. >> i've been very consistent. i will not comment on any specific transactions of the company, never have. i've always been consistent that in the long term, if i really want to bring in long-term competition and lead this entire industry in the u.s., sales are important, capital is important. and one of those things could be a transaction in organically of some type. i've always said we have multiple options. in the short-term, what i have pointed out is that wanted to native lee and qualitatively, this c

fcc's tom wheeler says he thinks it's a good thing for them to abandon this that the fcc would have been busy with all the deals on the table. one group not happy about this, the bampgs. analysts banking in some of this revenue from the deals they don't get paid if the deals don't close. nover knew what the fees would be for a possible sprint-t. mo deal, it never got announced. estimating the banks would have raked in $274 million in revenue overall, $138 million possibly for citigroup alone. just for these advisory fees. 234 not even's counting financing for a jumbo loan that a deal like this would require. so for this windfall to be taken away at a time when interest rates are low and the markets are cooling off? >> right. i'm surprised -- surprised the market is not down today, to be honest. everybody discussing it earlier in the morning on "squawk box." deals falling apart. faber called it titanic tuesday. a sign of negativity in the economy. people not doing growth. people not doing big things. surprised to see everything in positive territory. wonder what art thinks about that? >>

where with re right now, we're on a 3,000 acre farm owned by a local farmer, tom wheeler.taring, when i look out this way, i'm staring at wheatfields. when i turn around, it's a giant flare with natural gas being burned off by a local plant. >> wow, just how bad are things going to get? >> reporter: so, i'm sorry? >> just how bad are things getting out there then? >> reporter: yeah, this is definitely turning to across the balkan, ranchers and farmers and the oil and gas industry. in the last year or so alone, we've seen more than a dozen class-action suits brought forth by mineral rights owners because of these natural gas flares on folks' properties. many of those farmers and ranchers. the tensions are mounting. the interesting thing here is to solve an issue like this flaring, these folks all need to come together, work together, and need to allow more pipelines to be built on farms like this one to reduce the flaring. so it's a -- tension is mounting, but also for a long-term solution, eefverybodys going to have to come together. >> were you there last night? when did

many of these flares are on residents' properties like tom wheeler whose hay field i'm standing in right now. tom is not taking part in this regular paycheck or drilling in his property. but he hates to see this resource wasted. >> it's a waste. there has to be better ways to do it. we're easy to get along with. don't lie to us. we're not asking for the moon. we just want to be treated fairley. >> so last month, north dakota passed new flaring standards by october. at least 74% of gas generated at existing wells must be captured. the industry is already close to that. this will continue to increase to 90% by 2020. keep in mind, that 10% flare rate is still 10 times bigger than other states like texas and alaska. regulators here say that any wells that don't adhere to these new standards are going to be curtailed and the most at risk are wells that don't have any kind of infrastructure in place as many as 1500 wells. but there is a company that has a potential solution to all of this. we're going to tell you more about that and their technology in the next hour of "squawk box," andrew. >>