Yesterday, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Sierra Club filed a federal action in the Northern District of California challenging the Bureau of Land Management‘s (BLM) leasing of property in Monterey and Fresno counties for oil and gas development. A copy of the action may be found here. The suit arises from BLM’s September 14, 2011, lease of three […]
On November 3, 2011, the EPA announced its final research plan on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a drilling methodology designed to recover natural gas and oil from deep shale formations by injecting water, sand and chemicals to break apart the rock formations and release hydrocarbons. EPA announced in March 2010 that it would conduct a research study to investigate the […]