Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory
Mar. 7, 2015
Another front in war on fracking
The Center for Biological Diversity recently sued several federal agencies for issuing permits to drill of the coast of California.
Michael N. Mills
Stoel Rives LLP
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UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA
Shannon L. Morrissey
Stoel Rives LLP
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San Francisco , CA 94111
Email: shannon.morrissey@stoel.com
UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA
Executing a well-defined campaign that has an end goal of banning offshore hydraulic fracturing - or fracking - in California, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) went beyond recruiting "fractivists" on the Internet to pulling out its heavy artillery in federal court last month. On Feb. 19, it sued the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and the Department of the Interior in the United States District Court for the Central District...
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