9th Circuit:  Agencies Failed In Their Assessments Of Offshore Fracking’s Impact

Mealey's (June 7, 2022, 10:31 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 3 reversed a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of federal agencies on environmental groups’ opposition to hydraulic fracturing, ruling that the agencies failed to take the “hard look” required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when they approved drilling in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of California....

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