The Latest On: Fracking
April 9, 2020
| In the News: Capital Public Radio
California Issues First Fracking Permits In Nine Months. But COVID-19 Makes It Even More Complicated.
Colin O’Brien, Attorney, California Regional Office, Earthjustice: “These permits took longer because the past process was inadequate, not because this most recent approval involved any enhanced review or increased protection.”
January 14, 2020
| In the News: USA Today
Conservation Groups Sue BLM Over California Fracking Plan
Michelle Ghafar, Attorney, Earthjustice: “A federal court already agreed with us once that the BLM failed to fully evaluate the impacts of the oil and gas expansion it is authorizing on public land. We’re returning to court once again to ensure the agency properly analyzes the impacts of devastating fracking activities in its plan.”
December 23, 2019
| In the News: KUER
District Court Will Hear Public Lands Fracking Lawsuit In January
Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “The effect of that [rescinded rule] was to leave all oil and gas development on federal lands in this country subject to really outdated and inadequate federal standards of our lands and our water and our public health.”
April 25, 2019
| In the News: Courthouse News
Feds to Open Over a Million California Acres for Oil, Fracking
Greg Loarie, Attorney, California Regional Office, Earthjustice: “There’s no place for this backwards plan in California’s clean energy future.”
December 7, 2018
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