Civil Litigation,
Environmental & Energy
Jan. 16, 2020
Conservation groups sue to stop fracking on California public land
The complaint claims a U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s supplemental environmental impact statement on the federal land and mineral estate “fails to adequately analyze the serious environmental and health impacts from hydraulic fracturing,” otherwise known as fracking.
A group of conservation organizations have sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to stop it from drilling into more than 1.6 million acres of California public land, a move they claim will have damaging and long-lasting effects on the environment.
Filed Tuesday in the Central District of California, the suit alleges the bureau's supplemental environmental impact statement on the federal land and mineral estate "fails to adequat...
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