State oil and gas agency adopts rules that undercut 2024 legislation to better protect disproportionately impacted communities and address cumulative impacts
Las diferencias de tratamiento por parte de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de Mendoza ocurrieron en el marco de una demanda acerca de la autorización del fracking o fractura hidráulica para explotar petróleo y gas de la formación Vaca Muerta en la provincia argentina.
The Mendoza Supreme Court’s differential treatment between the oil industry and civil society groups occurred in a lawsuit over the authorization of fracking from the Vaca Muerta formation in the Argentinian province
James Yskamp, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “Ohio has injection laws because we take our neighboring states’ waste, we take on most of Pennsylvania’s waste and a lot of West Virginia’s.”
Megan Hunter, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program, Earthjustice: “It is truly a victory to have caught the agency’s attention and secured action, particularly when the source is a toxic substance that EPA has thus far been reluctant to regulate.”
Announcement of historic anti-pollution action would save money and save lives, but key details are unknown, including whether the gas lobby’s “poison pill” is included
The bill will also redefine methane gas as “green energy,” and prevent local control of pesticides. We’re suing to stop this oil and gas feeding frenzy.
The new “poultry” law would require the leasing of state parks for fracking, redefine methane gas as “green energy,” and various other unrelated subjects, violating Ohio’s constitution
Community vows to stay vigilant in response to National Grid’s threat to re-apply for its fracked gas vaporizers and its current lobbying to undermine New York’s climate law