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USA - December 10 2012
On October 24, 2012, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), joined by a slew of environmental groups, petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to subject the oil-and-gas extraction industry to toxic release inventory (TRI) reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
USA - September 27 2012
A federal court in New York dismissed a challenge alleging a failure by the Delaware River Basin Commission (“DRBC” or “Commission”), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and others* to conduct National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) analysis for proposed regulations that would allow fracking in the basin.
USA - September 5 2012
On August 28, 2012, the Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) served an Endangered Species Act sixty-day notice on the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Secretaries of Commerce and Interior indicating its intent to sue.
USA - July 31 2012
The diamond darter, a small river fish related to the infamous snail darter that put the Tennessee Valley Authority’s operations in jeopardy in the late 1970s, has been proposed for listing as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
USA - July 11 2012
A recent EPA Environmental Appeals Board ruling and a northern Pennsylvania well water study from the Duke University researchers are creating perception headaches for the fracking industry in the Marcellus.
